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LOVE AND I IN HEAVEN. 



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The Prologues to the Sixteen Cantos of Book 
First — every one a Square— begin as follows : 

To Heaven to love. To Heaven to see. 
To Heaven to hear. • To Heaven to serve. 

To Heaven to grow. To Heaven to know. 

To Heaven to teach. To Heaven to lead. 

To Heaven to, bear. To Heaven to save. 

To Heaven to speak. To Heaven to work. 

To Heaven to shine. To Heaven to fight. 

To Heaven to reign. To Heaven to live. 

The New Reporter everywhere sees and reports 
that nothing can be well done except in Heaven 
—from a celestial base: which is the New 
Order. 

This Prologue, Book Second, likewise reveals 
the New Order — 

" Take Heaven and go thy ivay, 

With Sonship girt and shod; 
And to lone Hell be thou the day : 
It is the will of God." — 

Says Poor Richard Jr. 



Love and I in Heaven 



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PROLOGUE. 



I. 

About eight years ago I had a vision. A great 
shining thought became visible. It drew nearer 
and nearer and enveloped me in a white cloud. 
It was beyond me and above me and within me. 
And the beautiful wonder had a kind of frater- 
nal aspect which gave me courage. 

II. 
My soul went forth ; and at once I became 
Historian to the Beauty which I beheld. 

III. 
The first record : 

" It was a voice I saw, 

A voice with myriad eyes, 
Which shot me through and through with awe 

And infinite surprise." 

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6 LO VE AND I IX IIEA J EN. 

IV. 
The vision did not fade into the light of com- 
mon day. It remained, and taught me adoration. 
We walked together in the fields. 

" It daily talked with me, 

That manifested grace 
Which never was so manfully 

In any mortal face, 

" And like a brother said : 

Both eye and ear is light, 
And eve)-)' soul that is not dead 

Is Voice — as toell as sight.'" 

V. 
I began to build the vision into the City of 
Life. The poem " grew in wisdom and stature." 

" At work on manhood's height 

I saw in bright array 
A wonderful, reveahng sight 
Which made perpetual day." 



PROLOGUE. 7 

VI. 

The four quartrains which I have quoted took 
their places, regardless of number, in Square 
XXL 

VII. 

Does twenty-one indicate, that I had just 
reached my spiritual majority and was entering 
into the grand and beautiful estate of the Son of 
God? 

VIII. 

In the midst of my work I wrote to a dear 
brother whom at that time I had never taken by 
the hand, the author of a most admirable book, 
suggesting that he re-write certain parts and issue 
a new edition under a new name, God's Son in 
Man. 



8 LOVE A\D I JX HE A J EjV. 

IX. 

From the gentleman I received a very beauti- 
ful reply, in which the point was made that the 
world is hardly ready for the idea suggested. 

X. 

It is indeed true that prophets prepare the 
way, and that development requires time and 
times. 

XI. 

But is not this age of ours ripe for new glory 
as concerns the Genesis of Manhood ? 

XII. 
Are not men everywhere hungering after a 
completer thought of God and the Lord Christ ? 

Xlil. 
Our young men are groping for creative light. 
O Prophets, open ye the flood-gates of Heaven ! 



PROLOGUE. 9 

XIV. 
There is no medicine to cure the malady of 
corroding sin, and to heal our many infirmities, 
except the sympathetic light born of Divine 
Sonship. 

XV. 
And there is no vision or shining thought of 
avail to tlice, till thou dost welcome it and sur- 
render to it and loyally follow it. 

XVI. 
The new morning breaks, breaks, O Church 
of God, 

XVII. 
God's Son in Man, the Christhood of Man, 
are subjects which are rounding and shining 
in thousands of lives; and when they take pos- 
session of the common life, bewildered, weary 
Earth will rejoice in her transfiguration. 



lO LOVE AND I JX HEAVEN. 

XVIII. 
" The Voice with Myriad Eyes " is the all- 
beholding and all-publishing Voice of the Son 
of God. 

XIX. 
Faith is the substance and evidence of things 
that continue the same yesterday, to-day, and 
forever. 

XX. 
The City lies foursquare. 

XXI. 
Poetry, the Science of Heaven, is the Vision 
in the Foursquare City of Life of the Drama of 
God — God passing into and glorifying History. 

XXil. 
The Trinity, Father, Son, and Spirit — the high 
water-mark in the Theology of Poetry — is the 



PROLOGUE. II 

historical part of the Divine Quarternity, the 
Eternal Square. 

XXIIl. 
The Eternal Square, the measure of the 
Divine Circle, is the End alike in Poetry and 
Mathematics, in Religion and Science — an end 
which these Four Sisters are forever and ever 
attaining, and never fully attain. 

XXIV. 

Revelation, in every vocal quarter, is from 
generation to generation, as it was in the begin- 
ning, is now, and ever shall be : world without 
end. 

XXV. 

The wonderful realities of Form and Spirit, as 
revealed to the Foursquare Sisterhood of 
Humanity, are never wanting in the music of 
numbers and achievement. 



12 LO VE AXD J IX HE A I EX. 

XXVI. 

The Morning Stars are forever singing to- 
gether, and the Sons of God always shouting 
for joy. 

XXVII. 

Astronomy, true to the law of the Square, 
continues to build the Song of the Stars. 

XXVIII. 

Geology and the Pyramids are the Music of 
Geometry. 

XXIX. 

Botany is the musical glory of order and 
color. 

XXX. 

Every note in the Lyric of Life is a singing 
milestone in the ascent of Man. 



PROLOGUE. 



13 



XXXI. 
It goes without saying that Poetry, like the 
Father in the revelation of the Divine Quarter- 
nity, looks forth from every side of the Square, 
North, South, East, and West, both outward and 
inward, above and beneath. 

XXXII. 

And who shall say that it is a figment of the 

fancy and not a reality of the imagination, that 

Poetry, the testimony of God, reports and builds 

according to the rhythmical law of the Square? 

XXXIII. 
Poetry is discovery. There are more things 
in Heaven and Hell, the dual world of Life, than 
are dreamed of in any philosophy. And those 
who join the ascending and descending Angels, 
with strong, unshaken faith in the unity of all 
things, are sure to return with good news. 



14 LOVE AXn I IX HE A FEN. 

XXXIV. 
The Poet and his vision are one. One, the 
Christian and his faith, the little child and the 
Kingdom of Heaven. For the tabernacle of 
God is with men. The gates of pearl signify 
His presence. 

XXXV. 
The vision of God, eternal fountain of pain 
and delight, is the perennial Poem of Immortality. 

XXXVI. 
This volume is its own excuse for what it 
suggests. And it is committed to my Brother 
in the knowledge that its secrets are creative. 



THE TABLE OF CANTOS. 



BOOK FIRST. 

PAGE 

I. Sons are Friends, 19 

II. Man is Divine, 31 

III. Vision is Voice, 43 

IV. Service is Song, 55 

V. Heaven is Growth, .... 6^ 

VI. God is Man 79 

VII. The Poet, 91 

VIII. The Statesman, 103 

IX. The Mother, 115 

X. The King, 127 

XI. The Prophet, 139 

XII. Angels, . . 151 

XIII. The Virgin, 163 

XIV. The Son, 175 

XV. Thanksgiving, 187 

XVI. Eternal Life, 199 

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I 6 LOVE AND I IN HE A VEN. 

BOOK SECOND. 

PAGE 

XVII. A Modern History of the 

Great Lucifer Family, . . 213 
XVIII. The Fate of Balaam, the Son 

of Bosor, and His Brethren, 225 
XIX. The Logical Story of Judas 

and His Descendants, . . . 237 
XX. Celestial Vision and the Ma- 
terialists, 249 

XXI. Celestial Knowledge and the 

Agnostics, 261 

XXII. The Gospel of " Whosoever 

Will," 273 

XXIII. The Good Tidings of Divine 

SoNSHip, 285 

XXIV. The Prophecy of the Resur- 

rection AND the Life, . . 297 
XXV. A Prophetic Account of Our 

Treasures in Heaven, . . 309 



BOOK FIRST IS INSCRIBED 

To the Lovej'-s of Poetry, the Spirit of 
Truth ; 

To my Brothers and Sisters in the Eternal 
Sunshiiie ; 

To the Unconscious Sons and Daughters 
of our Father ; 

To Man, the Citizeri in the Republic of 
God. 



^-^//gc/s of God asccihiijig ifpon IJic 

Sou of MilN. 



CANTO I. 



SONS ARE FRIENDS, 



PROLOGUE. 



To Heaven to love. EarfJi, dust, 
Is the tone grave of Love. 
To ennvu siveet Hope in toil ami trust 
Love wakes, and builds above. 



SONS ARE FRIENDS. 2 I 

SQUARE I. 

The City lies foursquare, 
A pearl is every gate. 
My Love was valiant, strong, and fair; 
And I was not too late. 

Health and benignity 
Divinely set aglow, 
He led and drew me graciously ; 
And I made haste to go. 

To Heaven I passed, that's all, 
And found prepai'ed my nook 
At Life's Perennial Festival ; 
Which joyfully I took. 

Cheered by the Golden Sun, 
Grown humble, thankful, meek, 
To live the golden days in one. 
Love was the first to speak. 



LOVE AXD I IX HE A VEX. 
SQUARE II. 

This is the mansion where 
With One the richest known. 
May every man become joint-heir 
And cease to be his own. 

In this celestial place, 
This palace of the King. 
Meets He our fellowship with grace. 
With bread our hungering. 

For we are royal-born. 
And. each in each, are come 
Into the grand revealing morn. 
Discovering our home 

In God. And here. O Spouse, 
Our door gives far and wide 
The glory of the Father's House, 
Where sons and friends abide. 



SOA'S ARE FRIENDS. : 

SQUARE III. 

That sense of loneliness, 
Which had so oft opprest 
Me, was no more. The dear caress 
That life gives life was rest 

And shining prophecy 
Which I beofan to live 
On, dearer than the brilliancy 
Of thankful stars which give 

Themselves to answering eyes. 
The manifested Sons 
Of God went up and down the skies 
And seemed to say, M'Jio runs 

On errands in the Lord 
His secret need not seek. 
So shone they, O illuming Word, 
Continued Love to speak. 



2 4 LO VE AND I IN HE A VEN. 

SQUARE IV. 

Sons in the Father's House, 
To whom all thinofs belong, 
Who each and all the rest espouse, 
Are friends for life and song- • 

And in the common air 
Of Freedom, shinino-, STO 
From door to door and everywhere 
Learn how their comrades orow 

In knowledge and the grace 
Of wisdom. Glorious 
As God in that Benignant Face, 
Their lives victorious. 

Who serve and grow so fair ; 
Because they all believe, 
Which turns to music every care, 
To give is to receive. 



SO.VS ARE FRIENDS. 2 5 

SQUARE V. 

Friend is the highest Name 
In Heaven, I saw. God, Sire, 
Son, Brother, Lover, all bring flame 
To that Sweet Golden Fire. 

He comes soon as achieved. 
And Love's new story tells 
Of power imparted and received 
In workino- miracles. 

His presence is the voice 
Of God, as audible 
As light. In him all hearts rejoice 
And have good news to tell. 

His fellowship is grace. 
The grand new years to come 
Are sweetly vocal in his face, 
All prophesying Home. 



26 LO VE AND I IN HE A I EN. 

SQUARE VI. 

Grace, glory in the view 
Unmarred by drone and slave ! 
Our friends precede us and pursue 
Us, See their banners wave ! 

They teach that friendship is 
More than the silver chord 
And golden bowl of transient bliss, - 
Strong as Thy Love, O Lord. 

" Friend after friend departs " 

Is falsehood to the core. 
Perennial fellowship of hearts 
Is the Celestial Door. 

Friend after friend draws near 
And prophesies the Dawn 
When all His children shall appear. 
And so the Lord goes on. 



SCATS ARE FRIENDS. 2 7 

SQUARE VII. 

Not only was I free 
And very rich was grown, 
But in the grace of Hberty 
Considered naught my own. 

Both everything I had 
And everything I was 
Had I surrendered, I was glad ! 
And, lo ! it came to pass 

On Heaven's unfolding way 
God and His friends were new: 
New as the Vision and the Day, 
How beautiful they grew! 

Our Father's House was bright 
With glory from the dead ; 
And Love, the golden Heart of Light, 
The joy interpreted. 



28 LOVE AND I IX HEAVEN. 

SQUARE Vlll. 

God ours, His friends are ours. 
And that is why we come 
Into His Palace with new powers. 
Confessing This is Home. 

Not without them are we 
Made perfect, new heart saith ; 
For His Divine Fraternity 
Is one in growth and faith. 

Not without us are they 
Complete. One Body all 
The members ; and the Golden Day 
Hath no dividino" wall. 

In every mansion dear 
Conjoined with all the rest, 
Where with thanksgiving friends appear, 
God is both host and o'uest. 



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so ATS ARE FRIENDS. 

SQUARE IX. 

Love's word I followed, 
Intent to make it mine ; 
For I was rising from the dead 
To find all things divine. 

Communion of the lips, 
Pulsation in the breast 
Like Daybreak cried, Behold our ships 
Come laden with the best. 

For expectation oft 
Had seen the gala day 
When ships come in with flags aloft. 
Such glory on the way. 

Divinely comforted, 
I saw, O friends, a maze 
Of golden clouds, in which I read : 
He conies to crown thy gaze. 



30 LOVE AND 1 IN HE A VEN. 

EPILOGUE. 

I. 
Whatever endures is built on Divine Sonship : 
God, Family, Church, Nation. Divine Sonship 
is Eternal Friendship. 

11 

Friendship is the flower and fruit of Sonship, 
the sacramental glory which shines forever and 
ever. 

III. 
The Solidarity or Brotherhood of Man is the 
initial vowel in the unfolding Alphabet of 
Heaven. 

IV. 
The Divineness of All Things is of the very 
heart and soul of God's Universal Language. 



CANTO II. 



MAN IS DIVINE. 



PROLOGUE, 



To Heaven to see. The blind 
IValk np and down the earth. 
In Heaven the night is left behind. 
The Man is come to birth. 



MAN IS DIVINE. 33 

SQUARE X. 

The City lies foursquare, 
A pearl is every gate. 
One stood in adoration there — 
I see all that I state — 

As eloquent as blood 
By Love Eternal shed, 
Whose token is the orolden flood 
That bursts as from the dead ; 

Inspiring as His face 
Who in the midst of death 
Imparted all He was in grace 
And hope's immortal breath, 

And said, to hush the strife 

Of grief and loss, / am 
The' Resurrection and the Life — 

That brave heroic Lamb ! 
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34 LOVE A ND I IX JlEA J 'EX, 

SQUARE XI. 

The sioht I saw was Man, 
Unrecognized before ; 
Who bowed and in my Hfe began 
To speak forevermore. 

Sometimes the voice, I thought, 
Down from the mountains came ; 
Then from great depths the message brought 
Which always was the same. 

Exemption there was none : 
The whole great myriad hive 
Related as His flesh and bone 
His Presence made alive. 

All toneues of Heaven I heard, 
Who saw the vision and 
The Man deep in the shining Word, 
Exalted in the land. 



MA^V /S DIVINE. 35 

SQUARE XII. 

Life is omiiipotent 
Was plain as break of day. 
And every old impediment 
Began to pass away. 

Down the great avenue 
A train of angels swept 
And camped around us, proving true 
The word for heroes kept : 

To those beholding Him 
Who is invisible — 
The good news flashed from core to rim — 
All things a7'e possible. 

Joy ! it was joy and might 
To look on One Divine, 
Who cries, fast as He comes to sight. 
All that I have is thi^ie. 



I.OVE AND I IN HEAVEN. 

SQUARE Xlll. 

Joy unto joy was born. 
Incarnate storm and calm 
Saluted in the golden morn 
Like ang-cls in a psalm. 

Sometimes the twain embraced 
And conquered in a look. 
Sometimes with contradiction cjraced 
They diverse courses took. 

At which I wondered most 
I had no power to tell : 
In action prisoned, buried, lost, 
I knew that all was well. 

It was not peace or war 
In which His will was done ; 
But thankfulness that flashed afar. 
The storm and calm are one. 



MAN IS DIVINE. 37 

SQUARE XIV. 

The oneness of the world 
Was shining like a star. 
In Life's grand beauty lay impearled 
What men and angels are. 

All in the Light Divine, 
Beginning, way and end, 
I saw the Four great wonders shine, 
Which publish friend to friend. 

The Father was revealed. 
The Father and His Child ; 
And lo ! He could not stay concealed, 
The Spirit undefiled. 

And One was walking there 
Of uncreated fame, 
Who drew the circle and the square. 
And Glory was His name. 



LOVE AXD I IN IIEAJEN. 

SQUARE XV. 

I walked with God. The Sun 
Arose that goes not down. 
Dear Love and I, accounted one, 
Had on a o-olden crown. 

The Sun, I saw, so fair, 
Had no especial place. 
But seemed all g-lorious everywhere 
I turned to seek new grace. 

Divinely was it known. 
That marvel in the skies, 
Eternal Lio;ht within full blown, 
Serene before mine eyes : — 

Eyes now no longer dull 
While everywhere I bore 
The vision of the Wonderful 
And passed not from His door. 



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MAN IS DIVINE. 

SQUARE XVI. 

A little child I met, 
That once had looked so poor 
And lone that I could not forget, 
Was now God's shining door ; 

Through which I saw Him pass 
Robed in a smile of licrht. 
A struggling half-bewildered mass 
Who in the grievous night 

Had wandered all forlorn, 
Strode forward and began 
To dream that at the gates of morn 
They would behold the Man. 

A woman, once to me 
A very castaway, 
Was carolling her victory 
In God's celestial day. 



40 LOVE AND I IN HE A VEN. 

SQUARE XVII. 

Swing wide on every hand 
Gates like the morning gold, 
Revealing in Immanuel's land 
Gifts, gifts divine, untold. 

Space was indeed no more 
A master, but a slave. 
I was at home deep in the core 
And welcome on the wave 

Of every human heart. 
All things indeed were ours. 
Departing time did not depart 
Who left us all his powers. 

And men so human seemed 
That they appeared divine, 
Fulfilling all that I had dreamed 
To make God's temple shine. 



MAN IS DIVINE. 4 1 

SQUARE XVIII. 

Sometimes the Man appeared 
To vanish — and come back 
Renewed, enlarged, transfigured, cheered, 
Dispelling sense of lack 

For timeless moments ; calm, 
Rich, like prophetic ships 
From Eldorado, with a psalm 
Of peace upon His lips. 

But did He turn His face 
From mine? Cry all things, Nay : 
His other Name is Love. His grace 
Continues night and day. 

And so I saw the Word 
So sweet, so grand to ken : 
The Tabernacle of the Lord 
Is day and night with men. 



42 LOVE AND I IN HE A VEN. 

EPILOGUE. 

V. 
The Divinity of Jesus of Nazareth is the 
Divinity of Man, the only-begotten Son of God. 

VI. 

Man is comprehensive. The primal notes of 
all things, high and low, meet in his nature. 

VII. 
The cosmic character of Humanity shines like 
a star. The Heavenly Hosts behold it and re- 
joice. 

VIII. 
I saw that Heaven is always intent on pub- 
lishing the Divineness of Man. Thereby She 
triumphs. 



CANTO III. 
VISION IS VOICE. 



PROLOGUE. 



To Heaven to hear. No sight, 
jYo voice — a mere dead Jiull. 
In Heaven is visioii ; and the light 
Of grand sweet notes is full. 



risiox js VOICE. 45 

SQUARE XIX. 

The City lies foursquare, 
A pearl is every gate. 
Love is completion. All things pair, 
Who sees has not to wait. 

I often in the dark 
Had dreaming heard His voice, 
God's viewless folk would whisper, Hark! 
And presently rejoice. 

Hard, 'twas exceeding hard 
To hear when eyes were dim, 
Thouofh anorels still remained on 2;-uard 
And prophesied of Him. 

But when at break of day 
Be^an I to behold. 
Assuredly I heard Love say, 
Come to my House of Gold. 



46 LOVE AXD I IN HEAVEN. 

SQUARE XX. 

Surrender to the Life 
Which Is and does not seem, 
Whose prophecy is man and wife, 
No lonofer was a dream. 

Grand was the Golden House 
Where I began to learn 
Thy gentleness, dear Love and Spouse, 
As fire begins to burn. 

His gentleness contained 
So many things, so new. 
That at the sieht was I constrained 
To linger, till I grew 

To comprehension. I 
Took in the wonder first 
Of vision and the voiceful eye ; 
And it is here rehearsed. 



VIS 10 X IS VOICE. 47 

SQUARE XXI. 

At work on manhood's height, 
I saw in bright array 
A wonderful, reveahng sight 
Which made perpetual day. 

It was a voice I saw, 
A voice with myriad eyes, 
Which shot me through and through with awe 
And infinite surprise. 

It daily talked with me, 
That manifested crrace 
Which never was so manfully, 
In any mortal face. 

And like a brother said : 
Both eye ajid cai'- is lights 
And every soul that is not dead 
Is VOICE — as ivell as sight. 



48 LO VE AND I IN HE A VEN. 

SQUARE XXII. 

As soon as it began, 
My vision of the Voice, 
The Light which lighteth every man 
Constrained me to rejoice. 

The myriad eyes were they 
With vision of the Sun, 
The Bridegroom of the Golden Day, 
In whom His will is done ; 

The men of God's renown 
Who do the work of love. 
And in their brethren find the crown 
All other crowns above. 

And every eye was light, 
Truth, immortality. 
Imparting grace and waking might 
To set the prophet free. 



VISION IS VOICE. 49 

SQUARE XXIII. 

My liberty was this : 
The flash of thought and will 
As love and wisdom turned to kiss 
And self indeed was still. 

And like the voiceful streams 
On yonder mountain side, 
Which find as in prophetic dreams 
Their peace in ocean tide, 

I yearned to prophesy 
God-lighted souls among, 
In wonder lost, uplifted by 
Their restful tide of song 

And jubilance divine ; 
For sight and voice were one ; 
And voice was mine who saw them shine, 
Those prophets of the Sun. 

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50 



LOVE AND I IX HEAVEN. 

SQUARE XXIV. 

God's friends are full of eyes ; 
And widi dieir eyes diey hear. 
And what they hear falls from the skies, 
A voice which men revere. 

Expression is divine 
When vision is supreme, 
And hearing beautiful and fine 
As lieht's eternal beam. 

All life is one, I saw, 
And what is seen and heard, 
The flower of immemorial awe, 
Grows to a common word ; 

Till, loyal in His sight. 
In comprehension clear, 
All in the glorifying light 
Respond, The Lord is Jiere. 



VISION IS VOICE. 

SQUARE XXV. 
Eye doth not gladden ear 
When it is dead of nieht, 
ReveaHng voices sounding clear 
As manifested light. 

"I do thy will, O Thou 

Whose litde one am I," 
Pleads wakeful heart, responsive now, 
" My doing is my cry." 

God answereth through all 
The angels of the soul. 
His gracious dews begin to fall, 
White waves of music roll 

Like fire from star to star. 
The Light proclaims, I coiiie : 
Whose ever joyful tidings are. 
To God I bi'ing thee home. 



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1 oouKl not tran\p in innihlod «.lroam 
A vountry tar fi\>m Him. 

'l'hanksoivinv>- was awake, 
Coloslial folk «.lrow near. 
l>lad ohik!nM\ of iho Kinj;- to make 
Rojoioinv^" bravo and clear. 

Mine was the eye that sees. 
Mine was the heart that sin^^-s, 
Uoth everlasting' witnesses 
l\> everlaslini; thin^^^ ; 

\\ hioh puMishevl IkxI at hatul, 
Rt vealinc order, skill 
And oouraox\ si^rns thivui^h all the land 
C'f power to do I Us will. 



yjSIOA IS I OJCE. 

SQLlARLi XWU. 

T quickly loarnixl tliat toni^ucs 
.Are not a mystery 
In Heaven. Whatever is hath hmos 
W hich like the soinuliiii;- si\i 

Are full of voices. All 
Who enter Heaven behold 
The myriad bosom rise and fall. 
And do not need be told 

The pn-iphecies therein. 
Because the sight is smuul. 
And men resj^ondino- are all kin 
And with new tongues abound, 

To bear the glory on, 
lust like the rising Sun 
Who publishes the goUlen Dawn 
In which all hearts are one. 



54 



LOVE AND I IN HE A VEN. 



EPILOGUE. 

IX. 

Homer calls the Sun the Eye and Ear of the 
World. He speaks from On High. 

X. 

Saint John in Patmos, in the Spirit and 
therefore in Heaven, turns to see the Voice. 

XI. 
The Secret of Vision is the Divine Presence 
acknowledged. The Sons of God behold all 
things. 

XII. 
The Gift of Eyes is the Gift of Tongues. 
Mother Heaven announces : All ihi)tgs are 
voiirs. 



CANTO IV. 



SERVICE IS SONG. 



PROLOGUE. 



To Heaven to serine. There learn 
The source of light and song. 
The f on n fain of the fires that l)i/rn 
To cheer and keep thee strong. 



SERVICE IS SONG. 57 

SQUARE XXVllI. 
The City lies foursquare, 
A pearl is every gate. 
Love is new service everywhere ; 
And there is no debate. 

God in new service dwells 
Which is so good to know, 
One eoes and all his brethren tells 
Why roses bud and blow. 

To service service cries 
From every toiling star : 
World after world to world replies, 
Hoiv rich God's children are ! 

Who serves in anything 
And learns to love and wait. 
Like golden dawn begins to sing 
At the celestial gate. 



58 LOVE AXD I IX HEA I EN. 

SQUARE XXIX. 

The Song of Moses and 
The Lamb is new creation, 
Prophetic work through every land 
Which hath its preparation. 

They toiled to love's great height 
And served at every stage : 
Burst glor)'' on the common sight, 
The truth that hath no age. 

Their mighty work remains 
God's praise on every shore ; 
And each in each forever reigns. 
Unfolding more and more. 

Shine Moses and the Lamb, 
Incarnate, glorious song, 
Whom service of the Lord / inn 
Keeps ever new and strong. 



SEHl'/CE JS SO.VG. 59 

SQUARE XXX. 

Heaven is the only place 
For work, which God approves. 
I bathed in fountains of His grace, 
Achievinof what He loves. 

The Dayspring was my tongue : 
What Liofht to lancruaoe brou^rht 
Was God in everything among 
His works that woke my thought. 

Wherever God is seen 
Is some new work beoun, 
Accountino" for their oflorious sheen 
W^io on His errands run. 

O workers with the Lord, 
In Heaven indeed are ye, 
Where Vision is the great reward 
And toil is minstrelsy. 



6o LOVE AXD I IX HE A VEN. 

SQUARE XXXI. 

I saw, O Nio^htinorale, 
Who hadst the grace to hear 
The dying soldier's far-off wail 
And pause not for a tear ; 

Who as on anofel-winors 
Didst seek the wintry sea, 
To put thy hand to lowly things 
Which were divine to thee ; 

And didst with Heaven-born art 
WKen pain implored release, 
To mangled form and broken heart 
Bring healing and sweet peace ; — 

Thy work, I saw. was song. 
Prophetic, tuneful word 
Of God, by Heaven's increasing throng 
To be forever heard. 



SERVICE IS SOXG. 6 1 

SQUARH XXXIl. 

Our virtue is the sight 
Of God, too fair to paint, 
Like motherhood's divine dehght 
And couracre of a saint. 

There is no drudqery 
Where God's dear smile appears. 
One flash of Heaven's reahty 
Brings glory out of tears. 

God is forever found 
A manifested song ; 
Whose shining will within the sound 
Is that which maketh strong. 

For Him the toilers yearn. 
At hand they find Him. Sun 
And cloud the heart of music learn 
And in Goci's bow are one. 



62 LOVE AND I IN HE A VEN. 

SQUARE XXXIII. 

In every leaf and flower 
The pulse of music beats 
Prophetic service, hour by hour, 
In those divine retreats. 

Alike in star and clod 
One melody resides, 
The calm creative will of God 
Which in His children bides. 

It is by angels heard. 
Men of celestial birth, 
The shining music of the Word, 
All power in Heaven and earth. 

For music service is 
To which all work belongs, 
And in this ransomed world of His 
God is the sonof of sones. 



SERVICE IS SONG. 63 

SQUARE XXXIV. 

To labor is to pray, 
So once did cloister ring : 
The verdict of celestial day, 
To labor is to sing. 

I am divinely bold 
When singing at my post, 
And with His gifts so manifold 
Receive the Holy Ghost. 

Come ! I command ye all, 
O citizens on hiMi : 
Ye are my helpers at my call, 
Because your friend am I, 

The song of Heaven is work 
Where friends and lovers meet. 
In which accusers never lurk. 
Whose end is very sweet. 



64 LOVE AXD I IX HEAVEN. 

SQUARE XXXV. 

God's end in work is use, 
To waken and inspire, 
Consumino- bands of old excuse 
In His eternal fire — 

The fire that finds its own 
As in a burst of songr 
And shows the stairs before unknown 
And God's ascending throno^. 



O thronof that do His will 
And let your light so shine 
That men may see how ye fulfill 
The sonof of work divine, 

Ye walk the blessed shore 
Of harvest home desires. 
Where men alive forevermore 
Are ministerincr fires. 



SERVICE IS SOiVG. 65 

SQUARE XXXVI. 

I see them minister 
To those that shall be heirs 
Of God ; in whom they meet, concur, 
And triumph unawares. 

The Lord's new morning breaks, 
I learn what lovers mean. 
Love and His Bride when one awakes 
Are always King and Queen ; 

Who teach by grace divine 
The great expectant host, 
And see the Dayspring glow and shine • 
To guide, O Holy Ghost, 

The family of God, 
That household of His Sons 
And Daughters, through whose bright abode 
Grace ministerino; runs. 



66 LO VE AND I IN HE A VEN. 

EPILOGUE. 

XIII. 

Song dwells in the heart of all things. Service 
alone hath power to draw it forth. 

XIV. 

I saw that the work of Heaven is fittingly 
described as Song. Song is the crown. 

XV. 

Ministry is the Gate of Glory. The Sons and 
Friends of God knock : the Gate opens. 

XVI. 

God Himself appears in answer to service, 
saying, Feaj' not, I am thy exceeding great re- 
zvard. 



CANTO V. 



HEAVEN IS GROWTH. 



PROLOGUE. 

To Heaven to grow. Tlioit hast 
To live but Just begiui. 
Stop at the gate ? On, on ! Make haste I 
Godl^s loitt is not yet done. 



HEAVEN IS GJWlVril. 69 

SQUARE XXXVII. 

The City lies foursquare, 
A pearl is every gate. 
Love is enlargement anywhere, 
Grows Eden's new estate. 

My Love and I grew one, 
As with the rain unite 
The pure sweet children of the Sun, 
To make a new delight. 

And as the wonder grew, 
God's twain become one flesh, 
Which brought new wonders into view, 
Came prophecy as fresh 

And beautiful as Spring 
When grove and meadow flow 
With praise. It was the blossoming 
Of Life where all things grow. 



70 LOVE AND I IN HE A VEN. 

SQUARE XXXVIIl. 

My prophecy was sight ; 
And sleht was voice. I stood 
On Love's serene substantial height 
And saw the brotherhood 

Of all the ages pass. 
It was a spectacle 
Presented in the Sea of Glass, 
Which taught the miracle 

Of use and increment. 
For in their faces shone 
The Lieht for all His children meant, 
In which the Lord goes on. 

And new reality, 
Which drew them up the slope 
To service and the things to be, 
Revealed new growth and hope. 



HE A VEN IS GRO IV TH. J I 

SQUARE XXXIX. 

Use and the Increment 
Of Life went hand in hand, 
And built for me a firmament 
In which to understand 

The Stars. I came to know, 
By wise affection taught. 
That babes and men celestial grow 
To overtake God's thought ; 

And hail Him where sets He 
The nourishment of light. 
Thought and Eternal Liberty, 
And then resistless mia^ht. 

There is no standing- still 
In Heaven. Gates are within 
The gate. Hills are above the hill : 
God hath more hearts to win. 



72 



LOVE AND I IN HEAVEN. 



SQUARE XL. 

Heaven Is new growth, O Sons 
Of God — the (growth to Him 
Through whom the dear sweet purpose runs 
To open every dim 

And unperceiving eye ; 
Till our infirmities 
Which fear thy Presence, O Most High, 
Yield to realities. 

And growth is without end, 
The Stairs of Sacrifice 
On which one seeks a dearer friend 
And more salubrious skies. 

Four men of Faith I saw, 
Whose history I wove 
Out of the great meek heart of Awe, 
Perceiving how they throve, 



IIEAVEiY IS GROWTH. 73 

SQUARK XLI. 

Pure heart and sinu;le eye 
Equipped the friend of God. 
The Christ he Ijore and con(|uered by, 
That hero j^irt and shod. 

In hght, great hght he wrought, 
The friendly Abraham, 
laernal helpers came unsought, 
With silent Hei^e I am. 

His best he sacrificed 
And learned to reign and bless. 
In Heaven, the shining of the Christ, 
His work was righteousness. 

And his obedient years 
Are growing ; — building still 
In league with sorrow, pain, and tears 
New mansions of good will. 



74 



LOVE AND I IN HEAVEN. 

SQUAkH XLII. 

Old Homer — si^ht made choice — 
Obeyed as love obeys. 
An inspiration and a voice, 
He built heroic days. 

And when he saw no more 
The world's great eye and ear, 
The Sun created sun before 
Grew beautifully clear. 

He learned that Heaven is built 
On love and suffering. 
Blind Homer ! ask Him what thou wilt, 

The true and patient King ! 

< 

Though nurture come through thee, 
Ry manly vision taught, 
I grow to His Reality 

And cry, ]]liat JiatJi God ivrougJit ! 



UK A I -EN IS GR O WTII. 7 5 

SQUARE XLllI. 

The Conscience of his clay, 
Incarnate, songful word, 
Passed Milton on his lonely way 
And could not pass unheard. 

Good angels heard him first 
And grateful plaudits gave : 
When into Heaven his music Ijurst, 
What more had he to crave ? 

Because for men he sang 
That earth, earth, earth might hear. 
What time celestial arches rancr 
He saw his triumph near. 

Like Homer old and Ijlind 
He lives eternal years, 
And pours to feed immortal mind 
The music of his tears. 



76 



LOVE AXD I IN HEAVEaW 



SQUARE XLIV. 

Beethoven reached the Hght, 
Dear fountani of the ear, 
Which, through what seemed a grievous bhght, 
Flowed with increasiiiLr cheer. 

And so his music orrew 

<z> 

To Heaven. Then came his hour 
To prophesy, who so well knew 
Thy Name, Creative Power ! 

For music feeds on death, 
The hush of mortal mind, 
And dowered with God's eternal breath 
Inspires and lifts mankind. 

Sweet prophecy of Tone, 
At one with that of Thoucrht, 
In thy great mansion, not alone, 
How deaf Beethoven wrought ! 



HE A VEN IS GRO VVTH. 7 7 

SQUARE XLV. 

'Twas beautiful to watch 
The growing Sons of God. 
I saw Saint Peter Hft the latch 
And hail a new abode. 

A train was moving up 

That never hath an end. 

At every stage a larger cu[) 

Was passed from friend to friend. 

In comfortable love 
They labored, grew, and walked 
With God. They saw new things above, 
And Inspiration talked. 

Closer was God than thouQfht, 
Good news brought laden ships : 
Continues what the Lord hath ivrought 
Siveeter than lovers lips. 



78 LOIK AX J) J JX HEAVEN. 

EPILOGUE. 

XVII. 

The ^lass vvitlu'iclli, the (lower fadclh ; but 
the Sons of God, His Creative Word, ^row 
forever. 

XVIII. 

I'athci-, Son, and Spiiit — the liistory of God 
ill time — (he I'Arnial ("dor)' completes in Heaven. 

XIX. 

Heaven has no nse for time. So it eomcs to 
pass that Trulli has no aL;e. 

XX. 

To live in Heaven, doini^ the common work, 
is to thankhill)' receive our bread from Cu)d. 



CANTO VI. 



GOD IS MAN. 



PROLOGUE. 



To Heaven to know. Perhaps 
IVhicJi is of earth tlie bane, 
In Heaven wet robes round no one wraps; 
Truth co7nes like sun and rain. 



GOD IS MAN. 8 1 

SQUARE XLVI. 

The City lies foursquare, 
A pearl is every gate : 
Low on the rock, high in the air, 
It grows at lovers' rate. 

We had no more two wills, 
Love and His Bride ; nor have 
We now, because the one fulfills 
The other. On the wave 

Of inspiration rode 
I on from thought to thought. 
And in His rich and bright abode, 
Affectionately taught, 

I learned what God is at 
His highest, highest we 
Can ever understand : and that 
Was Wliole Humanity. 



82 LOVE AND I IX J IE. I VEN. 

SQUARE XLVIl. 

It was Eternity 
Which God inhabitcth. 
The stars were shining' splendidly. 
There was no room for death 

And darkness and the sense 
Of loneliness. I trod 
The path the stars revealed ; and hence 
Was in the House of God : 

That 1 louse not made with hands, 
In which the New Man dwells ; 
That Temple which forever stands 
And to Mis children tells 

His glory. Resting there 
I found a room to dwell 
In where the Fairest of the fair 
Was Lord Immanuel. 



'GOD IS MA IV. 

SQUARH XLVIII. 

The Lord was Man : was John, 
Beloved saint of old ; 
Was Paul whose manliness ^oes on ; 
Was Augustine whose gold 

Made generations rich ; 
Was all adorers are, 
Saints, heroes, worthies in the niche 
Of fame, and every star 

That shines forever. Yet 
The Children were not Ciod — 
Christ was not God, in whom they met- 
But sandals I le was shod 

With, jewels in His crown. 
The one who did aver 
That he was God, in looking down, 
Not up, was ivucifer. 



84 LOVE AND I IN HE A VEN. 

SQUARE XLIX. 

Clouds ! clouds before the sun 
Grew to a voice of shame 
And agony o'er something done 
Against the Holy Name. 

And there was war in Heaven, 
A dreadful, dark, deep sense 
Of what could never be forgiven, 
And a cry, Get thee hence ! 

And Lucifer was thrown 
Into the depths of Hell ; 
For one who Heaven professed to own 
Could there no longer dwell. 

Song and prosperity 
Came back ; and reconciled 
Was Heaven, the Lord's Humanity, 
Where reigns the little child. 



GOD IS MAN. 85 

SQUARE L. 

God ! God was Man indeed, 
All humanly divine, 
Whose vision was my growing creed, 
Whose glory was my shrine. 

He eave Himself to all 
That all might Him receive, 
Their never failing coronal 
Of manhood who believe. 

I in His gift believed 
And marvellously came 
To what I else had not conceived, 
Made welcome in His Name. 

I entered and found rest 
Where all I saw and heard 
Praised God ; and serving at my best 
I grew and learned His Word. 



86 



I i)\E .IXn I l.\ IIIAI'EN. 



SCJDAKli 1.1. 

My i'lorv was llu- Sim 
1 hat iMX's not down: the Man 
Named l.o\c, in whom all lliini^s arc done, 
l\\\<\ what I am he^an ; 

WMthonl l)ei;innlni', v\\(\, 
( )r mark ol hme and space ; 
My I'.Uhcr, llrothci-, I, over, I'riciul, 
Always l)efc)rc my lace ; 

The Spirit and the 1 n'itle 
lioth <Iaily cryint;, C "ome ; 
W ini^s nnder which I lis children hiilc, 
1 U)me, excrlastini; 1 lome. 

And alwa)s in I lis sjoht 
I lis little one was I. 
Who ^rowini; in I lis <;Tacc and mi^ht 
\\\'nl liiumi)hin»4" on hiiL^h. 



con IS MAN. 87 

SQUAIM: IJI. 

His l^roodin^ love which was 
And is and is to b(.', 
In whatsoever came to pass 
Was iiiiiMortanty. 

"All things lie ord(;r(;th," 

Sang- earth and sea and air 
In which the stars of life from death 
Were wonderful and fair. 

His love was imconfined, 
In judgment glowed and flamed, 
Where souls, dead souls that lag behinrl, 
Eternal order claimed. 

I le came with quickening power 
To cast cnit f:very fear, 
And in the beauty of 1 lis hour 
To bring the firjiden Year. 



88 LOVE AND I IN HE A VEN. 

SQUARE LIII. 

The Golden Year was come. 
Stars doubled. Room to fill 
Quadrupled. God's dear blind and dumb 
Awoke to do His will. 

Bloomed vision into voice. 
Heaven ! it was Heaven to see 
The great belated host rejoice 
In God's reality. 

The Man, Eternal Love, 
Was shining like the sun. 
All labored. Swifter than a dove 
The work divinely done 

Went on, to bring all years 
New grace and joy. In hope 
And adoration, smiles and tears, 
Toiled, tolled men up the slope. 



GOD IS MAN. 89 

SQUARE LIV. 

The mountain of His grace 
Was beautiful and high. 
At every step I rose some face 
Did unto mine reply. 

Ascent to Heaven was Heaven. 
Rejoicing witnesses, 
Like heroes to their country given, 
Confirmed the feeble knees. 

Divineness filled the land. 
This Golden House of ours. 
In which men live who understand, 
Was full of stars and powers. 

The Man was present, all 
His children, all His friends. 
And there I saw nor fear nor thrall, 
But Health that never ends. 



90 LOVE AND I IN HE A VEN. 

EPILOGUE. 

XXI. 

Inasmuch as God is Man, Revelation is our 
daily bread. The absence of Revelation is 
death. 

XXII. 

Every word that proceedeth out of the mouth 
of God is the growth of Divine Manhood. 

XXIII. 

In God made Human is the Secret of Devel- 
opment ; God comes to Man, and Man responds. 

XXIV. 

Jesus is lifted, and Man is elevated. Behold 
Him ! and where He is be Thou also. 



CANTO VII. 



THE POET. 



PROLOGUE. 



To Heaven to teach. Thy hand 
Is there so full of truth I 
Sow it through all the lone dead land, 
Sweet Sower, reap God^s youth. 



THE POET. 93 

SQUARE LV. 

The City lies foursquare, 
A pearl is every gate. 
Right on my Love had strength to fare 
I did not make Him wait. 

The cleansing water and 
The purifying blood 
Of God were flowing through the land 
Like morning's gray red flood. 

It was the blessed bath 
Free as celestial seas 
To mariners of light ; which hath 
For dreams realities. 

Therein I bathed and drew 
The breath of God's intent, 
Made pure and strong as for a new 
And beautiful ascent. 



94 LOVE AND I IN HE A VEN. 

SQUARE LVI. 
It was creative thouo-ht 

o 

Whose flower reveals the mind 
Of God ! In great new glory taught 
I left the dead behind. 

Life omnipotent, 

1 could not, would not stay, 
Who saw what resurrection meant 

On Thy eternal way. 

All things contained somehow 
The splendor of Thy Name ; 
And sterile loneliness the brow 
To darken never came. 

It was alive, the light, 
Yea, full of life divine ; 
And fell a voice from some great height, 
All that I have is thine. 



THE POET. 95 

SQUARE LVII. 

The voice had hardly ceased 
What time I saw and heard 
And so possessed, O golden East, 
Thy Poet and his word. 

The poet is, I saw, 
A prophecy of great 
Reserves ; on which God's children draw 
Soon as they reach the gate 

Of Life. All things are ours. 
No portion God keeps back. 
O Poet with celestial powers, 
To never suffer lack, 

Thy prophecy revealed 
The wonder of the world, 
In which all fountains are unsealed, 
And every flag unfurled. 



96 LO VE AND I IN HE A VEN. 

SQUARE LVIII. 

Possessing and possessed, 
The Poet's song and mine 
I sang. I feasted and was blessed, 

precious Bread and Wine ! 

%■ 

Dear God ! I saw and cried, 
/ see Thee with mine eye. 
Gates of Thankssfivinof swuncf so wide 
No cause to plead had I. 

1 heard the music, Co7ne ! 
God's open shining field 

Was invitation to come home : 
Responding I was healed. 

Now life is filial trust, 
Confessing God is good 
Who saved me from the grievous dust 
Of lying Satanhood. 



THE POET. 97 

SQUARE LIX. 

Eliphaz, tell me not 
That trouble meaneth sin, 
And when so grievous seemed my lot 
That judgment had come in. 

If judgment be His Name 
Another name is Grace ; 
For turning every cloud to flame 
He shows a glorious face. 

And if taskmastership 
Is high as thou canst reach, 
I from the springs of Freedom dip 
And learn a heavenly speech. 

In Fatherhood Divine 
I build the house of joy. 
Where discipline and trouble shine 
Which grieved the wayward boy. 
7 



98 LO VE AND I IN HE A I EN. 

SQUARE LX. 

O Bildad, flesh is blind. 
Let God be true and just, 
Whose justice is forever kind, 

Who smites but when He must, — 

As any father smites 
Who meaneth only good — 
And from His mountain calls, invites. 
Persuades, descends ; who would 

That none should perish ; all 
Whose children are His care ; 
Who when they into trouble fall 
Is always with them there. 

To heal the broken heart, 
To comfort them that mourn, 
To answer every crying smart — 
All in His bosom borne. 



THE POET. 

SQUARh" LXI. 

Ah, Zophar, verily 
My lies were put to shame, 
Aiul wisdom did not die with thee. 
I was indeed to blame, 

Who lived apart so long, 
A stranoer to my Kino-, 
l^ninindful of the thankful song-, 
So bcautitul to sin^-. 

The song of Sonship is 
God's river of delight 
Where He is mine, and I am His, 
Whose music sets me right. 

The blather knows Mis child, 
The child the Father knows. 
All things at length are reconciled, 
O sacriticial woes. 



99 



lOO LOl'E AXD I IX IfEAVEX 

SQIWRI- LXll. • 

Elihu. strong young man. 
In God witliout that power 
Which through thy voicoful fervor ran. 
Revealing not thine hour. 

His everlasting ness 
Abroad to thee is dim : 
Come home, let Him His child possess 
Till thou possessest Him. 

The o-entleness of God 
Will surely make thee great. 
And thou with grace and meekness shod 
Shalt see. grown strong, elate. 

His kingdom in thy life. 
The Fatlier in tlie Son. 
At otio the Bridegroom and His Wife. 
And trudi in all things done. 



THE POET. lOl 

- SQUARE LXIII. 

]\Iy new prosperity 
I lath many a cause and sign : 
God iirst, new eyes, reality 
Orioinal, divine ; 

Fresh might and heart tor work 
Which now is clear as day, 
In which no ghosts of failure lurk 
To take my joy away ; 

Possession erst unknown, 
All things becoming mine 
Because I am no more my own 
Who am so fully Thine ; 

Gifts, gifts, dear Lord in Thee ; 
A larger cup to dip 
W'ith from Thy great and brimming Sea, 
All men my stewardship. 



1 02 LOVE AND I IN HE A VEN. 

EPILOGUE. 

XXV. 
The Poets are Divine Reporters. They climb 
the Mountains ; they visit the Valleys : they 
enrich Mankind, 

XXVI. 
What the Poets discover is not their own. 
They would die should they not impart it. 

XXVII. 
The Treasures which the Poets gather belong 
to the Commonwealth. The reception thereof 
is their glory. 

XXVIII. 
Croesus hellishly blundered in not following 
the example of the Poets. No man liveth unto 
himself. 



CANTO VIll. 
THE STATESMAN, 



PROLOGUE. 



To Heaven to lead. Inspire 
Thou })nist and take good heed : 
In Heaven the Lord of hosts is Jire 
In thoi/ght and zvord and deed. 



THE STATESMAX. 105 

SQUARE LXIV. 

The City lies foursquare, 
A pearl is every gate. 
Love's personality is there 
As meek as God is great. 

Joy. joy of growth is theirs 
Who thankfully obey 
And on the bright ascending stairs 
Give all they are away. 

And personality 
Is life made known, the life 
Oi love, to set God's children free. 
Wliat time in manful strife 

And warfare it is lost 
In others. — like the Bride 
In Him who gives the Holy Ghost 
And lives because He died. 



1 06 LOVE AXD I IX HE A I EX. 

square' lxv. 

Thy child. O Father, Son, 
And Spirit personal 
As sympathy and work begun 
In Thee, the Lord of all, 

And in Thy strength achieved, 
Appeared in answer to 
The greatness Love and I conceived. 
As erst he came to view 

L^pon the Holy Mount ; 
Where Peter, James, and John 
Were awed, unable to recount 
The glory that goes on. 

And he who could not stay 
Because his life forbade. 
Like stars that shine and speed away 
Was sono- to make me elad. 



THE STATESMAN. lO/ 

SQUARE LXVI. 

In me he sano- because 
The man he was and is 
Surrendered, and without a pause, 
Went on, Hke symphonies 

As beautiful as God 
In all the shinino- throno- ; 
And, with prophetic meekness shod, 
Ascended to the song 

Of ereat deliverance — 
The sonor of Moses and 
The Lamb ; which singing, men advance 
And triumph through the land. 

And he, dear Freedom's word 
Of God, was one to whom 
It was a gladness to be heard 
As to the flowers to bloom. 



1 oS LOVE AXD I IX I/FA I EN. 

SQUARE LWIl. 
Thanksoivino- is God's wine, 
In which He comes so near, 
Such glory brings, that all things shine 
And publish Heaven is here. 

Twice ! in thanksoivino- all 
I am is counted twice. 
And when I hearken to His call 
And feel His grace sut'fice, 

1 in my work ascend 
ro that revealing land 
Where like the goodness of a friend 
Unrolls His new command. 

And life eternal grows. 
Abiding things increase, 
And on. right on forever flows 
The fruitful Nile of Peace. 



T/fE SrAr£SA/.4X. lOO 

soi'ARi- I. win. 

Iho Now C oininaiulinont calls, 
Lo\ o always hath a voice : 
Abroad bc\ond thv narrow walls 
Iniikl larger aiul rejoice. 

IniiKl in the one oreat Xame, 
IniiUl tor cMernal \ears. 
I'^nhindered bv a thoiiL^ht ot' fan\e, 
And better lor thy tears. 

Among- thy brethren build 
A palace great and fair : 
And let it with th\- best be filled 
bor geiUM'ous welcome there. 

.And when thou couiest home, 
1 h\- house that was so sniall 
Is grown to Heaven. — foundation, dome, 
Rejoiciui; friends and all. 



no LOVE AND I IN HE A VEN. 

SQUARE LXIX. 

No more can I rejoice 
In Pharaoh's idle court : 
Awake I hear the still small voice 
And unto God report. 

Lost ! in His people lost, 
Obeying His command, 
I am the leader of the host 
That seek the Promised Land. 

On Sinai's awful brow 
I stand subdued and still, 
And in His flaming- presence bow 
To learn His Holy will. 

Wherever angels call, 
On teeming pave and sod, 
And in His people most of all, 
I meet and talk with God. 



THE STATESMAN. Ill 

SQUARE LXX. 

My Present Lord Is grace 
And manifested power ; 
And in the shining of His face 
Is my prophetic hour. 

I give myself to Him, 
He gives Himself to me : 
My cup is flowing to the brim, 
Old troubles mount and flee. 

The horsemen of His grace 
Come trooping, trooping by : 
As many turn and throng my place 
As I can room supply. 

My door is swinging wide. 
And all refreshment find. 
What sifjnifies where I abide 
Who leave not God behind ? 



112 LOVE AND I IN HE A VEN. 

SQUARE LXXI. 

The bush Is burning still ; 
God's fire Is always here, 
Who with the beauty of His will 
Adorns the latest year. 

His fire of ceaseless love 
In which His will Is done, 
Is life and music, llorht above 
The glory of the sun. 

Fresh as new eyes to see 
Outflames perennial law, 
And new as Immortality, 
That myriad smile of awe, 

Comes the Eternal Voice, 
All that I have is ihiiie. 
I wonder, worship, and rejoice. 
And God Himself is mine. 



THE STA TESMAN. I I 3 

SQUARE LXXII. 

These eyes sometimes are dim, 
All signs I cannot spell ; 
But I endure, beholding Him 
Who is invisible. 

His first evangelist 
Through every land I go, 
And bear my witness to the Christ 
In whom the ages grow. 

As I go on and on 
The heroes of His will 
Are lost and found in the great Dawn 
In which He cometh still. 

To set His people free, 
Who honor in their rise 
The Prophet of Reality, 

The Statesman with God's eyes. 



114 LOVE AND I IN HE A VEN 

EPILOGUE. 

XXIX. 

The Statesman is Government : of the People ; 
by the People ; for the People. Lincoln saw 
clearly. 

XXX. 

God is in the Statesman. With thankfulness 
and double strength beholds he God in the 
People. 

XXXI. 

The Promised Land is never reached except 
by passing through the discouraging unbelief 
of the Wilderness. 

XXXII. 

The Statesman who perseveres and triumphs 
at a single stage, forever sings the Song of 
Moses. 



CANTO IX. 



THE MOTHER. 



PROLOGUE. 



To Ilcavcn to bear. On High 
llic c/iihircii loJioiu yc bear 
ylre Sons of Love ; and so ye cry 
For joy, they are so fair I 



THE MOTHER. I I 7 

SQUARE LXXIII. 

The City lies foiirsfjuare, 
A pearl is every gate. 
In Motherhood was all my care ; — 
Was Love then out of date ? 

Love's golden time to speak, 

I saw^, is oft doferred. 
Through every open door we seek 
■ Pours glory from the Word, 

Approving more and more 
Our search. And when we haste 
To enter, wonder, and adore, 
And so the vision taste. 

Love speaks, devoutly heard. 
Things hero, seer, and sage 
Rejoice in, marvellously stirred 
To deeds that have no ace. 



1 I 8 LOVE AND I IN HE A VEN. 

SQUARE LXXIV. 

Door after door. And yet 
One makes a frequent pause 
As if attending to a debt, 
r^or debts we make, because 

Thereby we reach the core 
Of knowledge — debts which must 
Be paid ere opes another door 
Of Motherhood and trust. 

And payment is as sweet 
As love and thankfulness, 
Which mark unfolding life made meet 
All other lives to bless. 

Door after door through use, 
Which is the heavenly sign 
That drone and bankrupt and recluse 
Can never grow divine. 



THE MOTHER. \ 19 

SQUARE LXXV. 

Jerusalem above 
The Mother of us all 
Kept back no more her secret. Love 
Who answers every call, 

The fount of heavenly lore, 
Poured forth a golden flood 
In which I saw at every door 
A thankful mother stood. 

There motherhood revealed 
And was the grace and power 
Of God incarnate, and appealed 
To manhood every hour. 

For who in Heaven is born 
Is crowned with vision by 
His Mother at the door of Morn, 
To show him God is nio^h. 



I JO / Ol\E AXD I I.y J/JLtlEN. 

SQllAKli LXXVI. 
Ill vision is llic si'L;!! 
( )!" the celestial Itirlh ; 
C'ause and elletl are one (here : iniiu! 
And diine have ceased, like earth. 

Ihere ev(M-y soul is one 
With ni)riad Mother Trulh ; 
Whose; chikh-en. children of the; Sun, 
Are rich in manful )-outh ; 

And foro-c the golden cliain 
With every link alive, 
Where nno'els jm) and come aL;ain 
/\nil all the memhers lhii\i'. 

The l)lessed progeny 
Is corporate rt^ward ; 
Which makes so nnich moi'e rot>m lor 1 hee 
I'Ji-rnal Sire and I .(>ril. 



rilE MOTHER. 121 

SQUARE LXXVII. 

Clothed with the mystery 
Of Light, the Virgui Bride, 
The Bride of God, makes history, 
And all her souls abide. 

Her little ones receive 
The dignities of grace, 
Which make their honor who believe, 
And light the dullest face. 

The gift of character 
Grand, beautiful she gives, 
Which is so blessed to confer : 
For this alone she lives. 

For this we two were wed, 
And all who love, God's host, 
The once begotten from the dead 
As by the Holy Ghost. 



1 2 2 LOVE AMD I 1\ IIE.WF.M. 

SQUARE LXXVIII. 

One proof of wliat I Icaniccl 
Had dwelt ihrc^e thousand years 
111 I l('a\cMi. And I lannah, still concerned 
In travail, pain, and tears, 

A star that has no a^e, 
Divinely understood, 
Was joy and prrace at cn'ery staij^c 
Of holy motherhood. 

And she awoke grrcat joy 
In what I too had done, 
Mother of manliness, that boy 
Whom angels call my Son. 

One sangr — I bowed to her, 
God's matron meek and rich, 
And also was Mis messenqei- — 
Ancient or modern, which? 



77//'; MoruER. 123 

SQUARE LXXIX. 

God is to mc so <j^ood 
I must in Him rejoice. 
How doth the boon of motherhood 
Surpass my halting voice 

To i^ive Him thanks ! — the boon 
That was withheld so long 
To come divinely like the noon 
Of everlasting song. 

My child indeed is His 
In love eternal ; which 
Vv\\\ hearted as the morning is 
Makes me, forever rich, 

The riches of the world 
Advancing to the light ; 
For Heaven is in my boy impearled, 
God's glory come to sight. 



124 LOVE AND I IN HE A VEN. 

SQUARE LXXX. 

My cup (lows to the brim. 
Hope Is celestial fire ; 
God's gift to me is mine to 1 lim, 
Who knows my great tlesire. 

To give is prophecy. 
Refreshment, growth, and rest. 
Lo ! angels of reality 

Come laden with the best 

As if to testify 
I lis never failing love 
Whose Star is always in the sky 
All other stars above. 

God's eyes are never dim, 
His own He always sees. 
His gift to mc is mine to Him, 
O all ye witnesses. 



THE MOTHER. 125 

SQIJARI- LXXXI. 

Thy handmaid, Lord, am I, 
My house is mine no more : 
To serve and know the; reason why 
Is joy unknown before. 

The darkness passes : now 
There is no longer room 
For darkness, since where dwellest Thou 
All diings begin to bloom. 

My work is in the light, 
O gentleness Divine, 
Where comes achievement into sight 
And thankfulness is mine. 

For he belongs to Thee, 
Child of the glorious face 
Whose eyes like music comfort me. 
Because Thou art their grace. 



126 LOVE AND I IN HE A VEN. 

EPILOGUE. 

XXXIII. 

Marriage is sacramental. Divorce is crime. 
Motherhood is Divine Honor. Mother is the 
Name of Heaven. 

XXXIV. 

There is nothing made or created, to speak 
with precision. Everything in God's world is 
born, 

XXXV. 

The earliest Book is Genesis — the genealogy 
of the World. The latest will likewise be 
Genesis. 

XXXVI. 

•Life's attitude : Behold the handmaid of the 
Lord. Be it unto me according to Thy Word. 



CANTO X 



THE KING. 



PROLOGUE. 



To HeaveJt to save. What are 
Yottfor? Must yoii not save 
Your brother, light a grand new star, 
And pass not to the grave ? 



THE KING. 129 

SQUARE LXXXII. 

The City lies foursquare, 
A pearl is every gate. 
Salvation, glory, pain to bear 
The King and Conquer fate. 

Beholding Him sang I 

Hosaiina to His Name : 
Which was the great good reason why 
• To God and Heaven I came. 

Men are as if they were 
Not who have never hailed 
The Lord their King, to minister 
To Him and be regaled. 

And Man they never saw 
Who have not seen the Lord 
And heard in resurrection awe 
His liberating word. 



130 LOVE AND I IX HEAVEN. 

SQUARli LXXXIII. 

My liljcration was 
'i'hc song' once more bcg-un, 
Tlw King lias come. It came to pass 
His great robe like the sun 

Began to cover us. 
l""or I had not perceived 
That I in l.ove was Morions, 
So slowly I believed. 

And it was not yet plain 
I le came to birth and grew 
Divinely, like the Lord. A strain 
Of music grand and new, 

My weakness far above, 
Rang through thc^ (Golden 1 kill 
Of God's incorporated Love. 
And it was personal. 



'J HE KING. 131 

SQUARE LXXXIV. 
1 answered I lim, God's child 
Set in the lowly ranks. 
C) N(jrth and South now reconciled, 
My life was grace; and thanks. 

The King burst forth Hke fire, 
As beautiful as Dawn. 
Transfigured He my one desir*;, 
Revealing, Love goes on. 

And I went on in I.ove, 
A kindling s[)ark of (if)d, 
Who l)y J(M'nsal<'in above 

Was mothered, girt, and shod. 

The glory of the King, 
I prayed, so grandly free, 
'JIcl]) ni<:, dear Lord, in 1 )avid sing 
VVitli his humility. 



132 



LOVE AND I IN HEAVEN. 



SQUARE LXXXV. 

I in the I louse of God 
Abide forever. Stand 
The walls like heights of Freedom. Broad 
And broader grows the land 

Which they encompass. Man 
Can never pass it through 
Though speeding on as heroes can, 
At every stage made new. 

Inscriptions everywhere. 
Alive is every name ; 
Perennial friends are life and care, 
God is immortal fame. 

I know them and am known ; 
For I in God am hid, 
Revealing what I am has grown 
From what I was and did. 



THE KING, 133 

SQUARE LXXXVI. 

The lion and the bear 
Remain. How can they leave 
Me ? or I them ? The scars I wear 
Are history. I weave 

The triumph every day 
Into life's golden web, 
And see it on your glorious way, 
Resistless tides that ebb 

And flow and come and go 
Like lovers in the Lord. 
And when to any work I grow, 
Rejoicing, I record 

His will achieved and stand 
Approved before His face, 
Because the conquered lion and 
The bear are constant grace. 



134 LOVE AND J IN HE A I EN. 

SQUARE LXXXVII. 

Goliath's voice is still 
A challenge as of yore, 
So shines the wonder of Thy will 
Whose g-oodncss I adore. 

How did the Kincf increase 
In power and beauty, Heart 
Of God ! — and enter into peace, 
What time I did my part 

In that renown ? — that fight 
In which Saul held his breath, 
Receiving, cowardice despite, 
A welcome back from death ? 

It was the Kinof who won 
The day. It was the Lord 
Whose approbation like the sun 
Was visible reward. 



THE KING. 135 

SQUARE LXXXVIII. 

For help I give him thanks, 
That friend in Jonathan. 
Discovered in the courtly ranks 
He made me twice a man. 

A friend I found a friend, 
I who had God before ; 
Receiving grace to comprehend 
His always open door. 

A friend all men within, 
Who whispers day by day 
Amid the world's confusing din 
TJie King is on His luay. 

A friend awoke the dead — 
That prophet friend indeed — 
When truth and manliness had fled 
And mine was sorest need! 



136 LOVE AND I IN HE A VEN. 

SQUARE LXXXIX. 

When to my harp I sang 
Bewildered Saul gave ear ; 
Reverberating, sweetly rang 
Reviving heavenly cheer. 

Shall David now desist ? 
A hand no longer lend ? 
Hath God no great evangelist 
To wake that sleeping friend ? 

I will not give him up, 
The fallen son of Sis. 
Aroused he with the King shall sup 
And learn what friendship is. 

What am I for ?— except 
To wake and raise the dead ? 
No lethargy hath o'er me crept, 
I lead and I am led. 



THE KING. 137 

SQUARE XC. 

The King is not unknown 
Because divinely hid, 
Revealing what He is hath grown 
From what I was and did. 

O friends and enemies, 
Speed we forever on : 
And ye, recording witnesses, 
My days that are not gone. 

My friends and foes and days 
Complete my epic. And 
Ye gates of everlasting praise, — 
Ye sinor the Kinof at hand. 

My life is grace and thanks, 
God in more friends my home. 
Forever, O infernal ranks. 

Break ! break ! The King has come ! 



138 LOVE AND I IN HEA VEN 

EPILOGUE. 

XXXVII. 

What is the origin of the King? He is born 
and grows to His Regal Dignity. 

XXXVIII. 

In the womb of Terrestrial Life the King 
takes form. He conquers and bursts into 
Heaven. 

XXXIX. 

The Kingdom of Heaven is taken by violence. 
Celestial giants are resistless. Life is every- 
where omnipotent. 

XL. 

The Dignity of Man is Kingship. On the 
Stairs of Sonship He climbs step by step. 



CANTO XI. 



THE PROPHET. 



PROLOGUE. 



To Heaven to speak. The 'word 
Is always there at hand. 
And it is one 7ohieh Jnst noiv stirred 
Thy soul; it is thy n>a)id. 



THE PROPHET. 14^ 

SQUARE XCI. 

The City lies foursquare, 
A pearl is every gate. 
My Love forever growing fair 
Revealed what I relate. 

To prophesy, I learned, 
Is both to toil and shine 
Till thou, dear neighbor, hast discerned 
That all I am is thine. 

Who toil and shine the most 
Arc they who teach the best, 
Strong children of the Holy Ghost 
Who enter into rest 

Through greatest suffering. 
And build their home above 
Out of that grand and manly thing, 
The painfulness of love. 



142 LO VE AND I IN HE A VEN. 

SQUARE XCll. 

Pain is the prophet's crown, 
God's pathos in the word 
Resistless, shining in renown 
All ages have referred 

To heroes — highest name 
Prophetic. Love and I 
Were magnets, and a hero came 
Who could not pass us by. 

To us he came because 
We were in need, and great 
Attraction found he in our cause, 

To open some nezv gate 

And let the glory out — 
The glory of the soul 
Which always turns a man about 
To hear the music roll. 



THE PROPHET. 1 43 

SQUARE XCIIl. 

The gate of prophecy 
Responded, swinging wide. 
O 'twas a holy thing to see 
Where conquerors abide ! 

The Hght so grandly shone, 

strong Elijah, light 

That issued not from thee alone 
That I began to fight 

For God and liberty, 
For home and native land. 
And thou didst so arise in me 

1 could not else than stand 

To what I saw, and strive 

To hand the vision down, 

To publish thou art still alive 

And growing in renown. 



I 44 LOVE AND I IN HE A VEN. 

SQUARE XCIV. 

The prophet in me spoke, 
The prophet of all souls, 
On whom the new effulgence broke, 
Whose music shines and rolls. 

I came unheralded, 
Out of the desert came. 
Commissioned to revive the dead 
And bury death and shame. 

I spoke the word I saw. 
Restored the widow's son, 
And rose in thankfulness and awe 
Which through such labors run. 

Fire that from Heaven I brought 
Old falsehood did consume, 
And angels in the duty wrought 
Came down to make men room. 



THE PROPHET. 1 45 

SQUARE XCV. 

With fierce untempered zeal, 
The men whom God had slain 
Responsive to the common weal, 
Alas, I slew again. 

Rebuked was I ; my strength 
Departing proved me wrong. 
But God's refreshment came at length 
And I again was strong. 

I reached the mountain grot 
And learned the Master's name 
Was not rock-rending wind, was not 
Earthquake or leaping flame. 

Nor any passing noise ; 
But bringing joy and pain, 
The Master was the Still Small Voice 
Whose word and work remain. 



I 46 LOVE AND I IN HE A VEN. 

SQUARE XCVI. 

To seek, anoint, and train 
Elisha, found of Thee, 
I turned me to my work again, 

God my liberty. 

1 grew and grew in grace, 
Worked to the grand Desire, 

And, toihng with a manward face, 
The chariot of fire 

I saw and welcomed then ; 
Because the grander work 
For blinded, groping, dying men 
It taught, I would not shirk. 

And, lo ! the prophet gone, 
To God and man became 
The prophet going on and on, 
To win diviner fame. 



THE PROPHET. 1 47 

SQUARE XCVIl. 

I passed from age to age, 
The hope and fear of men. 
I spoke in hero, teacher, sage, 
Directing tongue and pen. 

Where is Elijah ? oft 
The faint and weary cried ; 
And when they learned and looked aloft 
The sense of weakness died. 

Sometimes I went away 
That I might come once more, 
And always like the break of day, 
Returninor, comfort bore. 

The Sun of Righteousness 
With healing in His wings, 
The medicine of thankfulness. 
Burst from the darkest things. 



1 48 LOVE AXD I IN HE A VEiV. 

SQUARE XCVIII. 

In God did I go on. 
And God in me achieved 
The eolden miracles of Dawn, 
Which all who saw believed. 

Before His face I went 
Who maketh all things new ; 
Into the manly word Repent 
Outpoured I all I knew. 

I met Him in the Mount, 
Cathedral of His grace, 
Where men continue to recount 
The glory in His face. 

And from the heights there came 
Hear jMy Beloved Scvi ; 
Which gathered up in golden flame 
All prophecies in one. 



THE PR OPHE T. 149 

SQLARE XCIX. 

How can the prophet cease ? 
To-day as yesterday. 
O angels and the Pruice of Peace, 
Do I prepare your way. 

I came unheralded, 
Out of the desert came 
Commissioned to revive the dead 
And bury death and shame. 

I pass unrecognized 
Where Christ deep buried lies ; 
But in the blood of God baptized, 
I toil until He rise. 

To make all men rejoice 
And grow to God, I am 
The Prophet of The Still Small \'oice. 
The Herald of the Lamb. 



150 LOVE AND I IN HE A VEN. 

EPILOGUE. 

XLI. 
Revelation is the Discovery of the Will of 
God. The Prophet is the Discoverer and Pub- 
lisher. 

XLII. 
The Prophet cries, TJius saitk ihe Lord ; be- 
cause through him speaks the Divine Presence 
in Humanity. 

XLIII. 
The Prophet is known because he lives and 
utters Eternal Truth. He needs no other cre- 
dentials. 

XLIV. 
The Secret of Prophecy is rich experience 
and perennial growth, crowned with Celestial 
Vision and Wisdom. 



CANTO XII. 
ANGELS. 



PROLOGUE. 



To Heaven to work. In Heaven 
The work ye do remains : 
It is the work that God has given, 
In which ye take all pains. 



ANGELS. 153 

SQUARE C. 

The City lies foursquare, 
A pearl is every gate. 
There Sons are friends and angels. Wear 
They all the robe of State. 

The chosen, taught and sent 
Of God, they do the work 
Which measures the Divine intent, 
And no accusers lurk 

Behind them. I report 
Just what I saw. Their days 
Are elorious in God's world-wide court, 
Whose uncreated praise 

Shines forth from everything, 
To help them build His stor}'. 
E'en little children learn and sing 
His loveUness and glory. 



154 LOVE AND J IN HE A I 'EN. 

SQUARE CI. 

No idle ones are there, 
Because they bear the new 
Angelic name and have a care, 
Whatever taught to do, 

To win celestial fame. 
Nor is there great or small 
With Him who drives the blessed Name 
God lifts and kisses all. 

The v^ery babes that smile 
And prophesy are high 
As Gabriel. A litde while. 
They too range earth and sky 

On (M-nuuls in \\\v. Lord. 
Sweet thankfulness and truth 
Make angels equal ; whose reward 
Is service and (iod's youth. 



ANGELS. 155 

SQUARE CII. 

Their glory is the day : 
A thousand years of night 
What time they find or make their way 
Fade in celestial light. 

Love is the unit. And 
Growth is the victory. 
Thanksgiving rises to command. 
Deeds climb to royalty. 

Dear God, Thy shining facts 
I learned by slow degrees ; 
For they required so many acts, 
Thy great tuition fees. 

And when the knowledge came, 
So fair and sweet to see, 
Which turned the passing clouds to flame, 
It grew to prophecy. 



156 LOVE AND I IN JIEA VEN 

SQUARE cm. 

Prophetic knowledge is 
The note of Heaven. And I, 
Possessing God, confessed as His, 
Began to prophesy. 

Refrain I could not. It 
Was plain as break of day 
That messengers with glory lit 
Are always on the way. 

I saw great lamps put out, 
Rooms circumscribed with bars, 
Confusion entering and doubt ; 
But Hell quenched not the stars. 

They found their work in Hell : 
The morning stars that sang 
Together, there had news to tell ; 
Hell with good tidings rang. 



ANGELS. I 5 7 

SQUARE CIV. 

I saw the Discipline 
Of God shine hke the sun, 
His angels going out and in, 
His will forever done. 

Who went to find the lost 
Took Heaven itself away, 
And left the great expectant host 
A yet diviner day. 

Who went to minister 
Such glory with them bore 
That they who stayed to worship were 
Yet fairer than before. 

Who went to raise the dead 
Such life received and gave 
That all their friends were comforted 
Before each opened grave. 



158 LOVE AND I IN HE A VEN. 

SQUARE CV. 

It was a blessed sight, 
God's angels gone afar 
And hopeful Heaven increased in light 
By many and many a star. 

Remembered T so well 
The primal word of I leaven. 
"Give" — so spake Lord hnmanuel — 
"And unto you is given." 

And it was joy to see 
The proof made visible 
That one — 'twas Jesus' prophecy — 
Are all who in Him dwell. 

But something more remained ; 
r^or those who went returned, 
To publish what the Lord ordained 
And what their talents earned. 



ANGELS. 159 

SQUARE CVI. 
From the grand East they came, 
Where glory maketh bhiid, 
Conveying treasures in His Name, 
The rubbish left behind. 

From the warm South they fared. 
All laden with the best, 
For Heaven's enlarging work prepared 
Which unto them was rest. 

From the rich West came they 
With trophies grown divine, 
Transporting room, O Golden Day, 
Wherein to grow and shine. 

From the cold North they hailed 
Where clouds beleaguer light, 
And with their joy who have prevailed 
Brought heroes into sight. 



I 60 10 1 '/■: A.Wl) / IN flEA VEN. 

S(^)UAKi-; evil. 

And when ihry Ciiinc; to view, 
Grown l)riL(lU(M" for tlic friends 
TlK'y ])r()UL(ht, how llcavc.-n in ^hulncssgrcw 
Whose increase never ends ! 

Somc^ chiefs 1 noted well, 
They were so lowly and 
So rich, like Lord iminannel 
Who gave the Lireat command. 

I'amed (^lahi'iel was there, 
And Michael die prince. 
And I'Jioch still was s^rowinsj^ fair 
Who won his spurs long since. 

Both Moses and his friend 
Klias Iritiinph wore. 
Saints John and Paul world without end 
'I'heir uleaminL-- banners bore. 



ANGELS. I 6 1 

SQUARE CVIII. 

In Athanasius 
A saint and hero stood. 
Grand Augustine made glorious 
The Heavenly Brotherhood, 

Saint Francis spoke and smiled 
And conquered as of old. 
Dear Jacob Boehme was a child 
With news that must be told. 

The Swede was there whose eyes 
Are voices. Gentle Blake 
Looked up adoring; Christ shall rise. 
All sang, New Mornings break. 

God's Sons who build His Heaven 
Kept bringing in their friends ; 
Who came in pairs through all the riven 
Clouds, to complete His ends. 



1 62 LOVE AND 1 IX HE A VEN. 

EPILOGUE. 

XLV. 

Hooked upon the Natural Body, the Body of 
the Flesh — and upon the Spiritual Body, 

XLVI. 
I saw that angels in the Service of God joy- 
fully obey the Corporation of the Spirit. 

XLVII. 
I perceived that ansj^els in the dnuli^ery of 
Satan slavishly heed the Corporation of the 
Flesh. 

XLVIII. 
I learned that anf]^el.s and men — one every- 
where — are dominated by the L'lesh or the 
Spirit. 



CANTO XIII. 



THE VIRGIN. 



PROLOGUE. 



To Heaven to shine. There bring 
The Son of God to birth. 
And then, to speed His Triumph, sing 
His song through all the earth. 



THE VIRGIN. 165 

SQUARE CIX. 

The City lies foursquare, 
A pearl is every gate. 
They came, the Fairest of the fair, 
Love and His Virgin Mate. 

And they were so in love 
That liberty was thrall. 
And came Jerusalem above, 
The Mother of us all. 

Out of the agony 
Of Virgin Motherhood 
Grace, Glory Freedom, Prophecy 
Shone like the morning flood. 

Ye who would see the fact 
In Heaven must find the room 
Where in the heart of thought and act 
God's lilies bud and bloom. 



106 l-O IE AND J JX IJEA I EN. 

SQUARH ex. 

1 viewed I lis lilies well, 
'liiy lij^ht so onuully shone, 
() Mother of Immaniutl, 
Whose days ^o on and on, 

I'air as the moon llion wast, 
And glorious as ihe sun ; 
Terrible as an .army vast 

Wh(jst: triumphs have he^un ; 

As lowly as a child, 
And oracious as the morn 
Who on her lilde ones hath smiU-d 
That unto ( iod are born. 

Sweet Tragedy of Man, 
iMillillmcnt of ihe Word ! 
Throut'h thee all strains of music ran 
That aneels ever heard. 



nil: ilKi.lN. 167 

SODAKi; CXI. 

This favor in I lis si;. '.hi, 
( )iiLs|)()k(: our I'mily, 
Is cxalUitlon and the li;;hL 
Of Prcsciil l)(tily. 

( i()(] halli a work for inr — 

I ihank I Mm : 1 stand slill 

Like Moses at iIk; hki/in^- tree, 

And hasU: Lo do His wilk 

'\\\v. woi'k of motherhood 
Is gnicc and trulli. 'I his stir 
( )r IM-ophccy liair nnderstood, 
Which 1 would not (hlcr, 

Is honor hom I lis lianck 
I am and am lo Ix- 
In evidence ihi-oii'di all the land 
To grc:aLness, Lord, in Thee. 



1 68 LOVE AND I IN HE A VEN. 

SQUARH CXIi. 

My life which is one day 
Gives all at every point. 
All parts in one do I survey, 
So perfect every joint. 

Now do the shepherds come 
To see my glorious Son, 
And having- Him adored rc^ich liome. 
All hopes fulfilled in one. 

I ponder in my he-art 
The marvels of Thy will, 
O Thou who from all things apart 
Dost all things hold and fill. 

Thanksgiving is my Child, 
Salvation is my Lord. 
Shall one remain unreconciled, 
O Manifested Word ? 



rilE VIRGIN. 169 

SQUARE CXIII. 

They come, they come from far, 
The wise expectant Kino;-s, 
Whose vision is the Morning Star, 
Whose hope diviner things ; 

And to their Hero bow 
With gifts of costly store, 
As if to teach all others how 
To wonder and adore. 

Uplifted hearts are full 
Of blessedness divine, 
And earth appears no more a dull 
Dark clod that may not shine. 

Sweet is the great release, 
O ye rejoicing souls. 
Ye sons of Purity and Peace, 
Through me your music rolls. 



1 70 LOM'. AND T I/X J IE. WEN. 

SQIJARI: CXIV. 

It is the temple. 1 1 ere, 
AcknQwlecl<'in<'- His ofift, 
Ciod's Presence and the GoKUmi Year, 
To Heaven my heart 1 lift. 

I malce my offering, 
A pair of turtle doves, 
A token to my gracious King 
I'rom one who toils and loves. 

I hear his thankful voice, 
The servant of the Lord, 
Whose great white soul must needs rejoice. 
And the prophc^tic word 

In Anna's golden speech. 
The sight they both behold 
Is glory and salvation. Each 
Looks u]). New gates unfold. 



THE VIRGIN. 



171 



SQIJARH CXV. 

God's temple once again, 
Throiigli nuiltitudes I pass 
In fellowship with thee, () l^ain. 
My Son is lost. Alas! 

Lost? lie llimsclf hath found. 
Among th(; 1 )octors sits 
My Jesus, with a voice the sound 
Of which all wisdom fits. 

He uttereth for \wv. 
The thought I cannot shirk : 
Dost tlioti not kiunu that J must be 
About 7ny luilher s zuork f 

Our common work is in 
His temple, which we are : 
There doth our Purity begin 
Thy worship, Filial Star. 



172 LUIK AAD J //V IIEAVKN. 

SOlIARi; CXVI. 

'\\\r Soil (if I *iirily, 
I >(1( >\((l S( >ii ()l ( i( 1(1, 
is Ixaiililiil as I .ilx riy 

With 1 leaven's (ommissioii shod! 

I !<• hears and is ihc I .iidil 
Thai hidilcdi cvciy man ; 
And j)ass I iic\cr lr( »ni I I is si;;ht 
1 luju^h day^. ^row dark and wan. 

As al the Marriai^v I'casl, 
So also (•\cry\vh('r<' 
Am 1 lo I Mm \\\r j-oldcn I''ast. 
I )o I lor II iin prepare. 

The sweel, sweet iiL;lit may lade, 
Nii^hl ?;eein to ( (HKpier d.>\', 
Ihil in ihese rohes di\ine arrayed, 
I shall not pass away. 



/■///'; VIKCIN. 

SOlJARIi CXVII. 



^n 



Love f;ul<lli from my sight, 
Civ'.ii (lai-kncss is the Cross! 
1 siaiid aloiMt at (load of night, — 
Immoasiirahic loss ! 

" 1 I iish ! lhf)ii ail, not aloiu;, 

Thy I .ord is very near." 
I Ic cri<". ill '.yiii|)adi''li(; loiic, 
I sol), " I )(ar Lord, I hear." 

Now is the darkuf'ss fled, 
And every grave unsealed : 
The resiirrectif)!! of the (h-ad 
Is God's dear laic revealed; 

The sight of vviiich is I leaven 
And die I'ereniiial Voire 
C )1 I -iidit. : (live and il sIkiU he oivcii 
LJnlo yon ; s/n'h.', rejoice. 



I 74 LOVE AXD 1 IN HEAVEN. 

EPILOGUE. 

XI.IX. 

Infinite would be the books containin<.; all that 
I beheld, standing on the Mountain of Purity. 

L. 

Purity is the Mountain great and high, which, 
fillint; the Heavens, enlarges for every New Life. 

M. 

On the Beautiful Mountain I saw that all 
Masterful Iokals are born of a Pure Virgin. 

LII. 

So glorious was the Vision that in lowlv 
adoration I cried, Sweet Motlier of Cod ! 



CANTO XIV, 



J\\\l SON. 



PROLOGUE. 



To Heaven to figlif. Apart 
From Heaven the base /s air. 
In Heaven the Son of God is heart- 
] ^e Jig /if the good fight there. 



THE SON. 177 

SQUARE CXVIII. 

The City lies foursquare, 
A [K'.arl is every gate. 
The Son of God, the Builder there. 
Makes use of every fate. 

He speaks and all are one, 
As thankful as the Bride 
Whose jewels in the Golden Sun 
The darkness cannot hide. 

So jjeautiful His part 
No child can turn away 
From the Beloved, Filial Heart, 
Without the loss of day. 

He gives — keeps open door — 
And all the more rcMiiains : 
His beautiful creative store 
Grows both in j^nTts and gains. 



178 LOVE AND I IN HE A VEN. 

SQUARE CXIX. 

The Son in Poet, Seer, 
Sire, Mother, Statesman, King, 
The Virgin and the Golden Year, 
Like Dawn deUorhts to singr. 

In Him the Father lives, 
That Consecrated Place, 
Where with paternal joy He gives 
And serves and reigns through grace. 

All angels witness bore. 
Saint Paul was crowned among 
Them there, and like a srarment wore 
My prophecy and song. 

He rose and sang in me. 
And I in him could not 
Refrain ; for Immortality 
Is Christ, one heart, one lot. 



THE SON, 1 79 

SQUARE CXX. 

When God, half understood, 
Revealed in me His Son, 
Conferred I not with flesh and blood, 
Nor lingered in the dun 

Air of uncertainty. 
I did that which I knew, 
Announced His Son's reality 
Which in me grandly grew, 

Confessed, and faltered not, 
The Father of us all. 
And when some mocked and others thought 
Me mad, I went to call 

The blessed day and night 
To see and witness then 
From Horeb's brow my new delight. 
And answer me, Anicn. 



1 80 LO VE AND I IN HE A VEN. 

SQUARE CXXI. 

All things were now aflame 
With manifested love. 
Jerusalem was not the same, 
My City was above, 

The Mother of us all. 
And Peter whom to see 
And talk with I had come was tall 
As any angel. We 

Those blessed fifteen days 
In sweet communion spent, 
And climbed in Lord Christ Jesus' ways 
The Filial Firmament. 

Upon my knees I fell 
As with a present crown, 
And all those days, I know it well. 
The sun did not c^o down. 



THE SON. i8i 

SQUARE CXXII. 

Love's work must needs be done. 
On the great hills of light, 
Where God looks forth to greet 1 lis Son, 
Burst Freedom into sight. 

The fast-barred door swung wide. 
The Realm which now wajis known 
Made answer, / alone abide. 
The Master found His own. 

Thy great white palaces, 
Amijitious Antioch, 
Have crumbled. Ccesar s proud decrees 
Stayed not the fateful shock. 

But, lo ! the Filial Name 
Which found a tongue in thee, 
Shall mauger crash of doom and flame 
Endure eternally. 



I82 



LOIJ'. AM) I IX IIE.WEN. 



S(jllARi; CXXlll. 

Work is ctcnial. Now 
No ncccl of lasli and rod. 
1 could not s(!c. my l)r('lhrcii bow 
r.clorc' riic Ihiknown (iod. 



'I'lu^ Son liKanialc rose 
And shamed {\\v. Sci'|)cnl's lies, 
(iod in lhos(^ (iriicks I mnsL ilisclosc:, 
I could no olluM'wisc. 

I lis fcH't wcrc^ glorious 
With lidinijs from on hi^h, 
And ni'.ircr cvcny one of us 
Than to myself was I. 

His work which must he done 
Went on as it heoan, 
Revealed in the I'.ternal Son 
Who jud^'lh e\ery man. 



-/■///'.■ SON. 183 

SQUARH CXXIV. 

I saw the Son Divine, 
His judgment did not miss : 
Correcting me became He mine 
Who am forever His. 

And I am growing still 
According to His grace. 
To reach the summit of His Will, 
The glory in His Face. 

But somehow He increases 
At least as fast as I ; 
And so the wonder never ceases — 
God knows the reason why. 

For in the Golden House, 
In His Belov(;(I Son 
Whose cause I love and there espouse, 
Is worship never done. 



184 LOVE AND I IN HE A VEN. 

SQUARE CXXV. 

His House not made with hands, 
Erected on the Rock, 
Forever and forever stands 
Secure from every shock. 

Who to this House hath fled. 
Whoever here doth dwell. 
Hath neither Death nor Hell to dread, 
So strong his citadel. 

Unto the Lord belongs 
The House of Love and Light, 
W^here Sonship is the song of songs, 
And Brotherhood is might. 

Bright Body, House, and Heaven : 
To this reality 
Thy Name, O Son of God, is given, — 
Which is revealed in me. 



THE SON. 185 

SQUARE CXXVI. 

God's House, His Form, His Day, 
The Body Spiritual, 
Is conqueror in every ray, 
And Master of us all. 

In every sky and earth, 
In angel there or here. 
In mortal struggling to his birth 
It shines divinely clear. 

And when the free man sees 
What God has built and is. 
Mortality takes fright and flees 
As somethinof never his. 

Like sunshine after storm 
Art Thou, O House of mine. 
Dear Master and substantial Form ; 
And God and I are Thine. 



I 86 LOVE AND I IN HE A VEN. 

EPILOGUE. 

LIII. 

I saw that the Natural Body, the Corporation 
of the Flesh, is the child of Adam. 

LIV. 
I rejoiced that tiie Spiritual Body, the Cor- 
poration of the Spirit, is the Son of God. 

LV. 

I beheld in our earthly liouse of this Taber- 
nacle the first man, of the earth earthy. 

LVI. 

I hailed in the House not made with hands 
the Second Man, the Lord from Heaven. 



CANTO XV. 



THANKSGIVING. 



PROLOGUE. 



To Heaven to 7'eigii. The Power 
Of God IS gyace ami thanks ; 
In which ye ciinib to His bright Hour 
And reign in any ranks. 



THA NKSGI VING. 1 89 

SQUARE CXXVIl. 

The City lies foursquare, 
A pearl is every gate. 
Humility is kingly there, 

Thanksgiving makes them great. 

There morn by morn heard I 
The song of Moses and 
The Lamb ; which told the reason why 
All through Immanuel's Land 

They cast down at His feet 
Their crowns of many a kind, 
And in His service made complete 
Grow to His lowly mind ; 

Which sets them all afire 
With God's simplicity, 
Sweet morning of the new desire 
Which shows our royalty. 



1 90 LOVE AND I IN HE A VEN. 

SQUARE CXXVIII. 

The Royal Life fulfill 
They, Moses and the Lamb. 
The Son of God, they cry, / will, 
And thank Him whose I am. 

There morn by morn saw I 
The reign of thankfulness. 
And in the Son, O Lord Most High, 
Thy everlastingness 

Became so truly ours 
That, gifted with the sight 
Of new long undiscovered powers. 
All servants in the lieht, 

I too began to sing 
The song of Moses and 
The Lamb ; which they go publishing 
Throughout Immanuel's Land. 



THANKSGIVING. 191 

SQUARE CXXIX. 

The triumph of the Son — 
Which is the thankfulness 
Of saints in whom all men are one — 
Shines in their very dress. 

Love makes the raiment which 
They wear. Love weaves their robes 
Of glory, white and wondrous rich 
Like all the starry globes. 

Love gives eternal eyes, 
And bids them at their will 
A beautiful delight devise 
And any joy fulfill. 

I used the eyes of Love, 
And touched thy robe, Saint John ; 
Which in Jerusalem above 
Assures another dawn. 



192 LOVE AND J IN HE A VEN. 

SQUARE CXXX. 

All, all the saints are ours — 
I saw what I report — 
To us belong their wondrous powers, 
Love storms their mighty fort. 

John's robe was thankfulness, 
Humility and praise. 
Worn manfully to stir and bless 
His friends and make new days ; 

Revealinor in a word 



Of sweet inspiring cheer, 
true thanksg^ivinij utte: 
That God is verv near. 



In true thanksg^ivinij uttered, heard. 



I saw. I see, the Lord 
In meek victorious John ; 
And in the book of life record 
The beauty that goes on. 



TI/AXA'SGiriXG. 



193 



SQUARE CXXXl. 

Dear God ! I turn about 
And see what anoels mean, 
And in the great campaign find out 
That Love is King and Queen. 

I enter into rest 
Forever lost in God, 
In whom I labor at my best, 
With wonder girt and shod. 

slowly passing cloud. 
Behold His children shine ! 

It is a word to speak aloud, 

1 find all tilings divine. 

A glorious star is Hope 
Which shines above the blast. 
I climb God's everlasting slope, 
Thankseivine follows fast. 



194 



LOP'E AND I ly HEAVEN. 



SQUARE CXXXII. 

I see new flags unfurled. 
The Day which prophets spake, 
Confederation of the world, 
Beofins, O Lord, to break. 

The Dawn which maketh one 
Like sacrificial Blood, 
Pours on the clouds so dark and dun 
Bright beams of Brotherhood. 

The nations in the light 
Come trooping to the Feast : 
Their faces shine with thankful might. 
The West salutes the East. 



The Lord goes marching on. 
New horoscopes are cast. 
Great deeds in God our Hope are done, 
Thankso-ivine follows fast. 



THANKSGIVING. 1 95 

SQUARE CXXXIII. 

The glory onward goes, 
Through every land extends. 
One blood, O Lord, within us flows, 
The North and South are friends. 

Old feuds have disappeared, 
Hiorh walls are broken down. 
And things so many stoutly feared 
Have turned to their renown. 

New hands and hearts are strong 
And promise golden days ; 
And Labor mountino- into Sone 
Becomes the crown of praise. 

The Lord goes marching on, 
Doubt to the moles is cast, 
Faith cries, The victory is won, 
Thankseivine follows fast. 



196 LO VE AND I IN HE A VEN 

SQUARE CXXXIV. 

Thy fire, O Lord, shows one 
Great brotherhood of souls ; 
Whose friendly voices leap and run, 
Through whom one purpose rolls. 

New prophecies aflame 
In meek and lowly hearts 
Bring- glory to the Filial Name, 
And some old wrong departs. 

Communion lightens ; forth 
It flashes East and West 
And flames from Heaven, O South and North, 
In friejidship is our best. 

Friends are the great reward, 
Who build and prove at last 
The Tabernacle of the Lord : 
ThanksQfivInof follows fast. 



THANKSGIVING. 1 97 

SQUARE CXXXV. 

Reciprocation calls, 
O Lord, from land to land. 
Lo ! every fetter breaks and falls, 
On Love's new heights we stand. 

To help our brother is 
Growth — erowth in God's New Year. 
And every note of sacrifice 
Is eloquence and cheer. 

Thanksgiving in the strife 
Which is the price of bread, 
Doth prophesy Eternal Life 
Which is to raise the dead. 



The Lord goes marching on. 
Great things doth Love forecast. 
The siaht of God is the Great Dawn, 
Thankso^ivinof follows fast. 



198 LO P^E AND I IN HE A VEN. 

EPILOGUE. 

LVII. 
Thanksgiving is the highest Employment of 
Man. It brings Him the Sweet Strength of 
Divine Brotherhood. 

Lvm. 

Thankfulness is the secret of all great achieve- 
ments. God's thankful children are Stars that 
shine forever. 

LIX. 
I discovered the Heart of Eternity. I saw 
that the Beauty was mine : Thanksgiving cap- 
tured it. 

LX. 

Henceforth, I said, tlierc is but one thing to do : 
To give thanks and go forward. 



CANTO XVI. 



ETERNAL LIFE. 



PROLOGUE 



To Heaven to live. There friends 
Are stars in Go(fs new sky ; 
Each shines for each and gives, not lends . 
They never pass yon by. 



ETERNAL LIFE. 20I 

SQUARE CXXXVI. 

The City lies foursquare, 
A pearl is every gate. 
God's Sons and friends, all unaware, 
Came and were not too late. 

Each was the House of Friends, 
Manse of Eternal Life. 
Sought they the summing up of ends 
Which crown their glorious strife. 

They struggled for the true 
And uncreated good 
Immortals lono- for. On the new 
Grand heio-hts of brotherhood 

And friendship in the Lord 
They conquered, strong to gain 
New friends ; rejoicing in reward 
Like vernal sun and rain. 



202 LOVE AND I IN HE A VEN. 

SQUARE CXXXVII. 

In our novitiate 
We gave our heart away ; 
And all things on us seemed to wait, 
So grew we day by day. 

Dear God ! Eternity 
The Beautiful was ours, 
Who in the grace of liberty 

Made use of great new powers. 

Perennial was our East. 
The setting of the sun 
Was but his rising, and the feast 
Auroral never done. 

The joy of mated birds 
Hail ! to the Dayspring said, 
And shamed the sad unchristian words 
One hears anions^ the dead. 



ETERNAL LIFE. 203 

SQUARE CXXXVIII. 
Our prentice work began, 
Which was to raise the dead ; 
To whom we hke the Son of Man 
On wings of glory sped. 

In Heaven we could not stay 
Who were so truly there, 
Nor could we ever turn away, 
O marvellously Fair ! 

The lone lost sheep appeared 
Resistless in our eyes, 
Who with celestial splendor cheered 
His gloomy, leaden skies. 

Strano-e ? It no more was strange 
That lowest He descends, 
God's Highest in celestial range, 
In glorious quest of friends. 



204 LOVE A\D I IX HE A VEX. 

SQUARE CXXXIX. 

Decay a cloud had been 
To take away our sight. 
But now Ave saw as we were seen. 
And friends made room and light. 

It was the springtide, full 
Of aromatic breath, 
The resurrection, not the dull 
Suggestiveness of death. 

Perennial Spring in Him 
Who once to Martha spake. 
/ apn the Resurrection. Dim 
Like eyes that do not take 

The light they once appeared. — 
Now words of life they were ; 
And we so truly wed and cheered 
Were their interpreter. 



ETEKXAL LIFE. 205 

SQUARE C\L. 

All life was prophecy 
And had a crolden tono-ue 
To utter glory that would be ; 
For everyone was young. 

The young" were strong in hope 
And promise. Every height 
Had angels beckoning up the slope, 

All glorious with light. 

The consecrated ends 
Of living were full-blown. 
O yearning in the heart of friends 
To know and to be known. 

For all they gave and taught 
They twofold more possessed. 
Constrained to cry, What Jiath God icrougJit 
Whose children are so blessed ! 



206 LOVE AND I IN HE A VEN. 

SQUARE CXLI. 

Cloud after cloud had eone, 
Face after face had come, 
New features of the Heavenly Dawn 
To beautify our home. 

For in the clouds He came 
In His perennial way, 
Till clouds were lost in eolden flame, 
And always came to stay. 

His everlastinoness 
Remained divine surprise, 
The new fair face of morn to bless 
Our still expectant eyes. 

Life ! life from death He brought. 
And all thincrs rose in sono-, 
O miracle of grace, God-wrought, 
To keep His children strong. 



ETERNAL LIFE. 207 

SQUARE CXLII. 

Alive was ev^erything ; 
For death had passed away. 
Like some insane imag"inino- 
Which could not bear the day. 

The golden passing leaves, 
Like ghosts of blessed days, 
At sioht of Llim who all receives 

Were touched with peace and praise. 

Reward, divine reward. 
Which once had seemed so far, 
Transfiguration in the Lord, 
Was now a near brioht star. 

What was and was to come, 
Had been and yet would be 
Made up the great big heart and sum 
Of Immortality. 



208 LOVE AND I IN HE A VEN. 

SQUARE CXLIII. 

Grace was on every hand. 
From myriad heights we heard 
/ am the Resurj'-ection and 
The Life — fraternal Word ! 

Swift to our finger tips, 
Immortal Son of Man, 
With crimson glory to our lips. 
Thy music leapt and ran. 

And we regenerate 
Serenely walked on high. 
And rich in Eden's new estate 
Forgave the serpent's lie. 

We were in Heaven and Heaven 
In us — one name, one place. 
One law — Give and it shall be given 
Unto you — all was grace. 



ETERNAL LIFE. 2O9 

SQUARE CXLIV. 

Celestial man and wife 
We thankfully began 
To read the Lexicon of Life 
As published in the Man. 

And as we read somehow 
The Book we found our own, 
God's gift original. And now 
Was He divinely known. 

The Father's House was ours, 
His children went and came ; 
And One bestowing all His powers 
Said, Go ye in My Name. 

And we the Lord obeved, 
Forever more to dwell 
In Heaven, whence this report is made. 
And bear good news to Hell. 
14 



2 I O LOVE AND I IN HE A VEN. 

EPILOGUE. 

LXl. 

The Heart of Life is Thy Mansion, O Eter- 
nity. What Open Secrets, What Triumphs are 
there ! 

LXII. 

Eternal Life is the preparation for daily work. 
Blessed, blessed are the failures which prophesy 
Triumph ! 

LXIII. 

Should this book fail, as some count failure, 
Triumphant Failure will be my exceeding great 
reward. 

LXIV. 

God smiled, I saw, and sweetly said, TJiis will 
serve — imtil the next Table-land of Manhood. 



BOOK SECOND IS INSCRIBED 

To them that would learn the Secret of 
Creation; 

To such as dwell in the Valley of Death ; 

To those who carry Heaven with them 
into Hell; 

To all who minister to the Heirs of 
Salvation, 



^/Ngt/s of G(h/ (/escem/tffg n/kvi the 
Soil of Man. 



CANTO XVII. 



A AlODFRN HISTORY OF THE 
GRliAr LUCIFliR l-AiWlLY. 



PROLOGUE. 



Take Heaven and go thy way, 
IVith Sonship girt and shod ; 
And to thy kith be thou the day : 
It is the will of God. 



THE L UCIFER FAMIL V. 2 I 5 

SQUARE CXLV. 

The City lies foursquare, 
A pearl is every gate. 
God's holy arm is always bare, 
Sang His regenerate. 

We were His soldiers and 
His captains for the fight 
In every dark and hostile land, 
We children of the light. 

Take Heaven, and go your way, 
God said. To do His will 
Did we go forth, who were the day, 
The desolation fill 



With lio;ht, and organize 
For great and glad campaigns ; 
That we might Hell evangelize 
And reap what God ordains. 



2 I 6 LOVE AND I IN HE A VEN. 

SQUARE CXLVI. 

I saw God's throbbing heart 
Full of the blood of Christ : 
Of Him the whole in every part 
That blood for me sufficed, 

I could not linorer where 
My Lord would not remain ; 
Whose new commission vocal there 
Was prophesying gain. 

And with a firmament 
Of everliving stars, 
In great humility, I went 

To break the chains and bars 

Of Hell. And not alone : 
Love was my Spouse forever, 
In whom for action I had sfrown 
To His divine endeavor. 



THE L UCIFER FA MIL Y. 2 I 7 

SQUARE CXLVII. 

A downward way, not far, 
We fared — we two just wed — 
When heard I, Hei'-e thy brethren are. 
Thou who wouldst raise the dead. 

I saw a multitude 
Surge Hke the restless sea, 
Avoldinof Thoucrht and Solitude 
And Truth that makes one free. 

And every one looked down 
In strange complacency, 
As if indeed he wore a crown 
And pitied Love and me. 

Love whispered, All are dead 
In great consuming sin. 
By ignorance and blindness led, 
Though having light within. 



2 I 8 LOVE AND I IN HE A YEN. 

SQUARE CXLVIll. 

I asked Love what it was 
Had filched their Hberty. 
And holding up a wondrous glass 
He bade me look and see. 

I looked. The heart of Pride 
Kept shooting poison through 
Them. Lucifer who still denied 
The Lord who bought him, threw 

The mantle of false light 
Around them ; which they wore, 
Supposing it was day. A sight 
It was sad as the door 

Of darkness. Family 
Of Lucifer, I cried. 
Above shine always Liberty, 
And God : They never lied. 



THE L UCIFER FA MIL V. 2 1 9 

SQUARE CXLIX. 

I looked again. I saw 
The chains that held them fast, 
The fetters which they thought were law, 
Which in themselves were cast 

And fashioned till as slaves 
They glorified them. I 
Beheld how In bewildering caves 
They hummed death's lullaby. 

Their kith and neighbors and 
Friends useless were, except 
To satisfy the one demand 
That never, never slept, 

Which was to be admired. 
Glow worms to open eyes. 
They were ; and yet were they desired 
By those in darker skies. 



2 20 LOVE AND I IN HE A VEN. 

SQUARE CL. 

No charity was theirs. 
They never knew the worth 
Of duty. They saw not the stairs 
Celestial. All was earth. 

At the circumference 
They dwelt. No gleams they had 
Of the great central spring from whence 
To make one rich and glad, 

The living waters flow — 
No vision of the Broken Bread, 
To eat which is to live and know 
The rising from the dead. 

Degenerating choice, 
To magnify the clod ! 
Ah, they had never heard Thy voice, 
O quickning Son of God ! 



THE L UCIFER FA MIL F. 2 2 1 

SQUARE CLl. 

No Son of God in sight, 
No eager eyes looked up 
And feasted on the hills of light. 
They never went to sup 

With God, nor said '' Come in, 
And sit and sup with me." 
No recognition didst Thou win, 
O Immortality. 

But we did not despair, 
The children of the licfht : 
To make conditions new and fair 
Was hope as calm as bright. 

To let the Filial Name 
Victoriously shine 
Was inspiration which we came 
To bring : Heaven's work divine. 



2 2 2 LOVE AXD I LV HE A I EA: 

SQl'ARl: CLU. 

l^nfilial lite, iho sin 
Aiul lust ot lookiiii;" down, 
Is 1 loll ; to hide God's lioht within, 
noi^onorato renown. 

God ! my unuttcrod ihouoht 
A vocal saint of yoro 
Switt to my wistful vision brought, 
Whoso word is still my door : 

/;//<> ONr House lie came 
W/icrc He had ahcays been. 

inoommunicable Xame 
Which resurrections moan I 

1 mourncil Him in llis tomb, 
1 sorvi\l llim on llis throne. 

1 hoard llim proaoh to those to whom 

He would in truth be known. 



THE LUCIFER FAMILY. 2 23 

SQUARE CLIII. 

This was I lis preaching there, 
Mis message to the dead, 
Which danced like sunlight in the air 
Whence every ghost has fled; 

Till in each upturned face 
Great reverence began 
The revelation of new grace, 
The brotherhood of man, 

The might of thankfulness, 
The ministry of love 
Which finds the privilege to bless 
All other joys above : 

Rise, s/ii>u\ thy light is conic. 
On JiigJi sec all things grow. 
The glory of our Father s Home 
Is life and fruit to knoiv. 



224 



LOVE AND J IN HEAVEN. 



EPILOGUE. 



LXV. 
To believers all things are possible. They 
take the right attitude. Attitude accounts for 
all things. 

LXVl. 
Lucifer made a fatal mistake in declining to 
look up. His degradation followed: he over- 
threw himself 

LXVII. 
The members of the Lucifer Family congrat- 
ulate themselves and look down. Ruin follows 
at their heels. 

LXVlll. 
The Attitude of Worship and Consecration 
under Divine Leadership is the chief condition 
of Wonderful Works. 



CANTO XVlll. 



THE FATE OF BALAAM, THE 

SON OF BOSOR, AND 

HIS BRETHREN. 



15 



PROLOGUE. 



The work of Heaven in Hell 
Is great — great as God^s Son. 
No man ean the long trinnipJi tell 
Save lie by whom 'tis won. 



THE sojVs of bosor. 227 

SQUARE CLIV. 

The City lies foursquare, 
A pearl is every gate. 
For mighty work did we prepare 
Who went to re-create 

God's fallen, ruined host. 
His heart of love was might. 
His Presence was the Holy Ghost, 
The Star that led us rig^ht. 

The Father's love was ours, 
Who in His children dwells : 
His image and Eternal powers 
Were in us living wells. 

Love and His thankful Bride, 
Stronof as substantial lio;ht 
Which cloud and darkness cannot hide, 
We made lone regions brieht. 



2 i28 LOVE AND I IN HE A VEN. 

SQUARE CLV. 

In our divine descent, 
To a wild place we came 
Where stars had left the firmament 
To darkness and to shame. 

Thick outer darkness there 
Gave every breath a taint, 
Resoundinor with confusino- blare 
Of fathomless complaint. 

It was the lowest hell 
Where lust new death distills 
In which the sons of Bosor dwell, 
All with inverted wills. 

There we on vipers trod 
And breathed with no alarm 
The deadly air. We walked with God. 
How could we meet with harm ? 



THE SONS OF BOSOR. 229 

SQUARE CLVI. 

Inverted wills were theirs. 
How horrible to meet ! 
They could not climb the heavenly stairs, 
They had nor hands nor feet. 

The loss came not by chance, 
But marched before their eyes 
Instead of that inheritance 
Which they refused to prize. 

A fable ! so they said, 
And turned them unto lust 
Which savors only of the dead, — 
Unto earth, ashes, dust. 

And since they would not climb 
God took the means away, 
His prophecy of things sublime, 
His guard against decay. 



230 LOVE AND I IN HE A VEN. 

SQUARE CLVII. 

I oft have followed, 
A boy just out of school, 
Another walking on his head 
Down in a shaded pool. 

So seemed they all to walk, 
Those sons of Bosor. And 
In correspondence was their talk, 
A language contraband, 

So base, infernal, low, 
That hills no message had. 
Inverting all they sought to know. 
They changed the good to bad. 

Heels always over head ! 
It is the common way 
Down in the reo-ion of the dead 
Where they abolish day. 



THE SONS OF BOSOR. 23 I 

SQUARE CLVIII. 

I looked upon the scene 
In calm and dioiightful mood. 
I asked myself, What does it mean ? 
Do I its truth include ? 

I looked and looked ao^ain. 
Something forever mine 
Made it so luminant and plain 
That it began to shine. 

God's wo7dd is Struggle . I 
That word could not shake off. 
But Plunder was a hellish lie. 
Let the wise villain scoff! 

I stood upon the Truth : 
God's zvorld is Sacrifice, 
Creative, Everlasting Youth. 
Who doubts is damned and dies. 



232 LOVE A ND I IN HE A VEN. 

SQUARE CLIX. 

It is a hellish lie, — 
Lust, plunder, and the fight 
Infernal. Wisdom from on high 
Gives sentence just and right. 

Balaam and all his kind. 
The villains of the earth, 
I saw. Rapacious, wise, and blind, 
Eyes had for them no worth. 

Sank they through selfishness, 
Till bought and sold they loved 
The wages of unrighteousness ; 
And death their plunder proved. 

But to annihilate 

Our Sonship, Love's Sweet Fount,- 
Was that committed to their fate, 
O Thou upon the Mount } 



THE SONS OF BOSOR. 233 

SQUARE CLX. 

I saw in Balaam still — 
For I had eyes to see — 
The Son of God, Creative Will, 
Our Immortality. 

But he possessed no heart ! 
Disorganized how could 
He stand complete ? From man apart, 
Forlornly wrong he stood. 

And I was part of him ! 
Could I divide my fate 
From his who kept my glory dim ? 
'Twas open still, the gate 

Divine. His sin I fought. 
Equipment, love, and light, 
Whatever I with Heaven had brought, 
I foueht there the crood fight. 



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234 



L VE AND I IN HE A VEN. 



SQUARE CLXI. 

I stood and cried aloud. 
In charity I stood. 
Upon the desolation cloud 
Had settled, and a brood 

Of cormorants. 'Twas dark, 
For God was out of sight. 
Salvation and the waitinor ark — 
Where? where, O dead of night.'* 

I had not missed my path : 
Who Cometh from on high 
With messaofes of kindness hath 
Always the seeing eye. 

Love and light were their wants. 
In, but not of the cloud, 
A terror to the cormorants, 
I stood and cried aloud. 



THE SONS OF BOSOR. 235 

SQUARE CLXII. 

O Mother Heaven, I cried, 
Dear Mother Heaven ! impart 
To these, God's children that have died. 
The ground-work of a heart. 

Light, Hfe was the response. 
Her answer. Lord, was Love, 
Thy Son, the Bread Immortal, once 
More welcomed from above. 

The sympathetic glow 
Star after star revealed. 
New hands and feet began to grow, 
Heaven was no more concealed. 

O Mother Heaven, I cried. 
Dear Mother Heaven ! impart 
To all my brothers that have died 
The love-lioht of a heart. 

o 



236 LOVE AND I IN JlEA VEN. 

EPILOGUE. 

LXIX. 
The Will is the body of all our loves and con- 
tains the key to every fate. 

LXX. 

The normal attitude of the will-body is up- 
right. But every love except the true deflects it. 

LXXl. 

Balaam the son of Bosor loved the wages of 
unrighteousness. And his attitude gradually 
was inverted. 

LXXII. 
I saw that it is the work of Heaven to draw 
men into the attitude of uprightness. 



CANTO XIX. 



THE LOGICAL STORY OF JUDAS 
AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 



PROLOGUE. 



Now covet what is best, 
Good things with Heaven in chord . 
Thy work will be thy joy and rest 
And God thy watch and ward. 



THE S TOR Y OF JUDAS. 239 

SQUARE CLXIII. 

The City lies foursquare, 
A pearl is every gate. 
The wondrous work in which all share 
I found incorporate. 

One body ; and one Soul 
Whose aim is always one, — 
To build to heavenly form the whole ; 
One faith : God's will is done. 

Not without Hell does Heaven 
Yield Her immortal fruit : 
Infernal cloud and darkness riven 
Give soul to harp and lute. 

Hell is the complement 
Of Heaven, I saw and heard. 
Both under the great firmament 
Of God's Creative Word. 



240 LOVE AND I IN HEAVEN. 

SQUARE CLXIV. 

Creation hath its way 
Through fire and cloud to glory. 
Night is the fuel of the day. 
Love crowns the burning story. 

Hell's disobedience 
Is somehow made to serve. 
With nothing does the Lord dispense. 
From all thincrs doth the curve 

Of beauty like the morn 
Emerge, and judgment shine. 
The Christ is in a manorer born : 
The stable erows divine. 

I from the heavenly height 
Beheld the darkness glow 
And every creature to the might 
Of peace and patience grow. 



THE STOR Y OF JUDAS. 2 \ I 

SQUARE CLXV. 

The fraofments that remain 
God gathers up. I saw 
The case of Judas. It was plain 
As shining love and law, 

The frugal heart and mind 
Of God. He hid his face, 
The traitor lagging far behind, 
But not forever. Grace 

Still kept him company. 
Intent to find a way 
To set him from his bondage free. 
O manifested Day, 

Who can the story tell 

Of blight, and curse, and sin,' 

And slow degenerating hell. 

Till grace at last shall win ! 
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242 LOVE AXD I IN HEAVEN. 

SQUARE CLXVI. 

To covet what is best, 
The goodness of the Lord, 
Is Hfe, enlargement, gracious rest 
And beautiful reward. 

The fairest of the Twelve, 
A clean and gentle youth, 
Benignantly began to delve 
In the great mines of Truth. 

The Master led the way. 
To win through trial, loss 
And grievous night instead of day, 
The glory of the Cross. 

But what He lived and taught. 
Eternal though it was, 
No forward work in Judas wrought. 
And what then came to pass? 



THE STORY OF JUDAS. 24; 

SQUARE CLXVII. 

He stopped to covet power 
And pawned the patient path, 
Invitino- dius the fateful hour 
Of darkness and of wrath. 

The ghnt and glow of gold, 
The pride of pence that passes, 
Of great infirmities laid hold, 
Deofradinof him to classes 

Infernal. In the school 
Of Hell God kept him — till, 
Confessing he had been a fool, 
Dreamed he of Freedom's hill 

And that divine estate 
To which he once aspired ; 
Whose always fair and open gate 
Is when beheld desired. 



244 LOVE AND I IN HE A VEN. 

SQUARE CLXVIII. 

The gate to Hell is sin, 
Lies which the bosom fill ; 
The gate to Heaven which lets truth in 
Is Whosoever will. 

And Judas grew intent 
To bruise the Serpent's head, 
And glorify the word Repent 
In rising from the dead. 

And God examined him 
And looked him through, to see 
If he had sullen grown and grim, 
Or to simplicity. 

Thanksgiving and delight: 
Which are the heavenly notes ; 
And God beheld a grateful sight, 
Eyes free from beams and motes. 



THE STORY OF JUDAS. 245 

SQUARE CLXIX. 

I could not separate 
The traitor's history 
And our humanity's estate, 
Both full of mystery. 

Glad on my height I saw- 
That they in truth are one, 
God's timber, whose sweet love and law 
Shine in both cloud and sun. 

I knew that I myself 
Had been Iscariot, 
To put instead of God the pelf 
Which means a darkened lot. 

And it was life to see 
That Whosoever will 
Availed for him as well as me 
On God's most holy hill. 



246 LO VE AND I IJV HE A VEN. 

SQUARE CLXX. 

The Sons and friends of God, 
We help hun, every one, 
The Judas on our modern sod, 
By traitorship undone. 

One history contains 
The story of us all, 
Embracing-, so the Lord ordains, 
Our rise as well as fall. 

We cannot otherwise 
Than be a daily aid 
And source of sweet divine surprise 
To some one who hath said : 

/ nevei' stood alone, 
I dragged i7ty brother doum ; 
And now he helps vie, though tmhiown, 
To climb and tain 7ny crown. 



THE STORY OF JUDAS. 247 

SQUARE CLXXI. 

And Juclas helpeth us. 
Without him we are not 
Made perfect. To be glorious, 
No one must be foreot 

In our benig'nant hive — 
For all must we make place. 
And though one very late arrive 
He brings another grace. 

Life is incorporate. 
No man can stand apart. 
Death is the intermediate state. 
Heaven is the sweet new start ; 

And Hell the rank despair, 
Whose age is just the age 
Of practiced lies. And Heaven goes there 
To quench the burning rage. 



248 LOVE AND I IN HE A VEN. 

EPILOGUE. 

LXXIII. 

Desire is so great a word that the old Pro- 
phets apply it to the Coming Man. 

LXXIV. 
The Desire of all Nations at last stands among 
men. And the Twelve stand with Him. 

LXXV. 

The desire of the Twelve save one is Heaven- 
ward ; the Traitor's Earthward, and lie is lost. 

LXXVI. 

Mother Heaven, I saw, hath need of Her 
beloved Judas, and goes forth to find him. 



CANTO XX, 



CELESTIAL VISION AND THE 
MATERIALISTS. 



PROLOGUE. 



IVotildst thon have eyes to see 
The Form of God f Do thon 
His work of love, to set thee free, 
And in His Presence bow. 



CELESTIAL VISION. 25 I 

SQUARE CLXXII. 

The City lies foursquare, 
A pearl is every gate. 
To Hell God's Heaven was ours to bear, 
To teach, emancipate, 

And lead bewildered slaves, 
In darkness held so long, 
And raise the flag that always waves 
A welcome like a sono- — 

A welcome to the best 
Our Father hath in store. 
Which is possessing and possessest. 
To know Him evermore. 

And on our faces light, 
Resistless as the sun. 
Brought freedom at the dead of night, 
To prove God's children one. 



252 LOJ'E AXD I IX HE A I EX. 

SQUARE CLXXIII. 

With freedom came the sight 
Of Spiritual Form ; 
By which the world for new delight 
Is kept alive and warm. 

Came then the King of glory. 
The Mother of ns all, 
\\ ho tells His everlasting story 
]\Iade answer to our call. 

The Sun that goes not down 
Shone with perennial power. 
Revealing- an eternal crown 
At the great harvest hour, 

God to inspire us laid 
The [elastic hand of lune 
In ours ; and with the other played 
His silent witching tune. 



CELESTIAL VISIOX. 253 

SQUARE CLXXIV. 

Heard we God's music which 
Creates and builds and lives, 
Proclaimino- man so wondrous rich 
That all he is he gives. 

We lived it, Love and I, 
The music of the Lord, 
Which proves, uniting earth and sky, 
Ineffable reward. 

And prophesieth God 
That all shall hear it and. 
Rejoicing, cease to grope and plod, 
With song to free the land : 

The dear sweet singing that 
Illumes and shows the way, 
Revealinof where God's child is at 
In His Eternal Day. 



254 



LOVE AXD I IX HEAVEN. 



SQUARE CLXXV. 

Song' is — ami helps t'ultill — 
The Word of God. I saw. 
Commissioned on His holy hill 
ro wake creative awe. 

A oTfoping- multitude 
Of such as have no eyes 
I'or the chief mark that God is good. 
The witnessing surprise 

That \\c is everywhere 
The Body of the Man. 
The I'^orm of Spirit. Soul Most l-"air : 
Whose gentle cleansing fan 

Is alwavs at command. 
With sweet magnetic thrill 
To waft 1 lis breath on ever\- hand. 
Fo heal us, if we will. 



CELESTIAL VI SI OX. 255 

SQUARE CLXXVl. 

The breath of God is hcaUh. 
And ye \vho recognize 
His Presence as die very wealth 
Of Heaven ascend all skies, 

In every valley dwell,. 
W'ith current duty shod, 
And hold the keys of Heaven and Hell, 
To do the will of God. 

And whatso'er ye bind 
On earth is bound on high ; 
(The province of immortal mind, 
Perceived we. Love and I). 

And w^iatso'er is loosed 
On earth is loosed above. 
Till all to Freedom introduced 
Fall royally in love. 



256 LOVE AXD I'JN HE A VEN. 

SQUARE CLXXVll. 

The multitude I met, 
Whom looked I through and through, 
Were every one in grievous debt, 
Perceiving naught as true. 

Faint word did they return 
To anorels that oft came ; 
And when God's fire began to burn 
Unwelcomed was the flame. 

They argued day and night. 
Brought logic to their aid, 
And stumbled at high noon : the light 
With darkness was arrayed. 

And they were perishing 
Because they had no vision. 
No sioht of one Divine to brinof 
Them masterful decision. 



CELESTIAL VISION. 257 

SQUARE CLXXVIII. 

To see the face of God 
Was what they needed ; and, 
With good news of His Presence shod, 
Did we before them stand — 

His Sons and Friends — to shine 
With all the harvest glory 
Of Sonship. Eloquence divine 
Adorned the blessed story 

Of Fatherhood and Love. 
And what they saw they heard. 
Some saw indeed and looked above, 
And thus received the word. 

And some did not believe — 
Not yet — did not behold 
• Our blessedness — did not receive 
The welcome manifold. 
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258 1. 01 'E AND I IN HE A VEN. 

SQUARE CLXXIX. 

The process everywhere 
Is constant, certain, slow : 
Not once but oft celestial care 
Is exercised to show 

God's face, and prove to men 
The patience of the skies. 
Beyond the word of tongue or pen 
Is witness which no eyes 

When opened can ignore. 
Incarnate Truth alone 
Is in the end resistless. Lore 
Of tomes \vell read, well known, 

Hath no assurance save 
Success. The hand of Love 
And Truth plagues death, fills up the grave 
And holds all thinos above. 



CELESTIAL VISION. 259 

SQUARE CLXXX. 

Unveil the Face of God, 
The glory of all vision, 
With good nezvs of His Presence shod, 
To wake in men decision. 

Evangelists of Heaven, 
At every turn we heard 
This ereat Commission. It was criven 
As daily bread, a word 

To waken and delight 
When Sonship masters fear, 
A proclamation day and night, 
The world's prophetic cheer : 

Unveil the Face of God, 
The glory of all visiojt, 
With good news of His Presence shod, 
To wake in men decision. 



2 6o LOl'E A XD I IX HE A J EX. 

EPILOGUE. 

LXXVII. 
The curable curse of luirth is blindness. 
The blind dwell at the Circumference : which 
is Hell. 

LXXVIII. 
Leax'iny;- the Serpent behiiul, who luwe eyes 
to see dwell at the Centre : which is Heaven. 

LXXIX. 

O, the confusion and desolation and loneliness 
which abound at the Circumference ! Good Lord, 
ihik'i'r lis/ 

LXXX. 

Mother Heaven forever leads Her bewildered 
children to the Peaceful Centre, the Sun of 
Risjhteousness. 



CANTO XXI. 



CELESTIAL KNOWLEDGE AND 
THE AGNOSTICS. 



PROLOGUE. 



To Icani just "u'/iaf if is 
To kiioiL' and to be fcnozi'ii, 
Let God be tliiiic ; be akiuiys His. 
How eaiist tJioii be thine oii'Ji f 



CELESTIAL KNOWLEDGE. 263 

SQUARE CLXXXI. 
The City lies foursquare, 
A pearl is every gate. 
We breathe reahty Hke air, 
Strong to invigorate 

The faint and weary souls 
Wrapped in the fogs below. 
Through whom no strain of music rolls, 
Who wail / do not know. 

Divinely led we haste, 
The Sons of God on high. 
To reach the fields so long lain waste, 
To teach and prophesy 

Till life and knowledge come 
To sweep the mists away. 
Revealing our eternal home 
Where it is always day. 



264 LOVE AND 1 IN HE A VEN. 

SQUARE CLXXXII. 

Agnostics held a field, 
Through which we often went 
Equipped with stars for all revealed, 
To build the firmament 



Of knowledge. Set we there 
The brightest that we knew ; 
Which God brought out by number. Fair 
And glorious they grew. 

How wonderful they were, 
Those stars of purest ray ! 
The prophet and the messenger 
Of hope were there. The way 

Of God was radiant. 
The mountains of His will 
Were full of toilers. Sone and chant 
Flowed like the laughing rill. 



CELESTIAL KNOWLEDGE. 265 

SQUARE CLXXXIII. 

Reclining on a slope 
Lay Huxley full in sight, 
With his disciples. Had they hope 
Of climbing any height ? 

Ah me ! if hope, and fate 
Were moulded only by 
Ourselves. Friends are the golden gate 
To welcome us on high. 

Ten thousand thought of him 
Who of himself despaired, 
And while he lay in twilight dim 
The morn of God prepared. 

Passed kindly Abraham 
And said, God is my Friend. 
And Moses cried, His Name I AM 
Is knowledge without end. 



266 LOVE A ND I IN HE A J 7?.V. 

SQUARE CLXXXIV. 

'Twas God's symposium 
Where each dehvers just 
His best, and larger makes the room 
For those who see and trust. 

The Son of Jesse sang, 
T/ie Lord my ShepJicrd is, 
I shall not want. And voices ranof 
Amen, amen, to his. 

Celestial light just then 
Like lightning seemed to play. 
And some of the reclininof men 
Looked up as if to say : 

I think it must be so, 
The tenderness of God. 
Sometime I may forever know, 
O sweet correctinor rod ! 

o 



CELESTIAL L<XO\VLEDGE. 267 

SQUARE CLXXXV. 

Elijah testified : 
/ love the still small voice ; 
And I zvho often sinned and died 
Am risen ; with me rejoice I 

Once more from Heaven the light 
Of revelation shone, 
To show Hell's ignorance in flight; 
God's glory so went on. 

Isaiah bowed and said, 
Our Father. And it came 
To pass that some burst from the dead, 
Exclaiming Blessed Name ! 

Life's new accession like 
A flood of sunrise flowed 
And swept away dike after dike. 
And the new seed was sowed. 



268 LOVE AND I IN HE A VEN. 

SQUARE CLXXXVI. 
Noiu are zvc Sons of God 
Rose like the Mornine Star. 
And John's bright beautiful abode 
No longer was afar. 

Paul like a giant free 
Rejoiced : O blessed Daiuu ! 
When God revealed His Son in me 
In triumph passed I on. 

The secret now was out, 
The open secret which, 
God wills, shall put all foes to rout, 
And keep us poor as rich. 

And every star received 
And gave new glory. Ran 
Great thoughts through brothers that believed, 
Transanimating man. 



CELESTIAL KNOWLEDGE. 269 

SQUARE CLXXXVII. 

I saw that ignorance 
Or fierce or proud is want 
Of Sonship, that celestial lance, 
With which One cried, Avaimt / 

And plunged the world in debt. 
From Sonship wisdom comes. 
In Sonship bugle, voice, cornet. 
Harps, organs, flutes, and drums. 

The soldiery of Song, 
Whose country is the soul, 
Sun, moon, and stars, attuned and strong, 
Their brave sweet music roll. 

And conquer in His Name ; 
Converting foes to friends. 
That all men may the news proclaim 
That goodness never ends. 



270 LO VE AND I IN HE A VEN 

SQUARE CLXXXVIII. 

Brave Athanasius 
Took up his parable 
And said, The Filial, glorious 
Natiie is invincible. 

Meek saints and seers gave fordi 
The diing diey knew the best : 
Christ in the sons of men, O North, 
And South, and East, and IVest, — 

God's Form — -forever dzvells. 
Saint Francis witness bore : 
Trees, beasts, and birds fraternal bells 
Ring out from shore to shore. 

Dear Jacob Boehme said : 
God's messenger of love, 
CJirist in me rising from the dead 
I kiiow and teach and prove. 



CELESTIAL KNOWLEDGE. 27 1 

SQUARE CLXXXIX. 

Ralph Waldo Emerson 
With sweet and shining face, 
A true celestial clarion, 

Smiled ! smiled this word of grace : 

See His free knowledge roll, 
Ye that are held in thrall, 
The glory of the Over Soul, 
Dear Father of ns all. 

And Phillips Brooks was there 
In that prophetic host, 
Clothed on with freedom, light, and air 
To preach the Holy Ghost : 

God is the home of knoidedge, 
His piipils Sons and Friejids, 
Ivimanuel His world-zvide college 
Where Heaven to Hell descends. 



2/2 /.Ol 'E AND I IN HEA I 'EN. 

EPILOGUE. 

LXXXI. 

KnowledL:^e is Divine I'o.ssession. On the sur- 
face is found only the symbol. Within is the 
Reality. 

LXXXII. 

To know tlie heights and the tiepths is the 
Province of Life. Let us be moving! 

LXXXIIl. 

The possession of knowledge is a Divine 
Trust. It grows by gifts and withers by re- 
tention. 

LXXXIV. 

I saw that Heaven can feed Five Thousand 
with a single loaf and increase Her Store. 



CANTO XX 



THE GOSPEL OF ''WHO- 
SOEVER WILL." 



PROLOGUE. 



Foil rsi] I tare is the 7c/io/c Tlv//, — 
I^yee (IS air, nri/i, laini, ligJif. 
Jllio is flicir 7i'/i()//i thou const not fitt, 
And square the neio twin might f 



WHOSOEVER WILL. 275 

SQUARE CXC. 

The City lies foursquare, 
A pearl is every gate. 
The glory of volition there 
Is to reciprocate. 

There is no lonely stock 
To which one may not go, 
No wondrous treasure under lock 
Which only misers know. 

That apple of the Lord, 
Which wrought such havoc once, 
Belongs to all ; and the award 
One needeth not announce. 

In God's Republic sings 
The brave true heart of toil 
The sum of all His gifts : free springs, 
Free light, free air, free soil. 



276 LOVE AND I IN HE A VEN. 

SQUARE CXCI. 

God's bounty is forever. 
And whosoever will, 
Let him with resolute endeavor 
His growing measure fill. 

Containing and contained 
I stood upon a height 
And saw that all men served and reigned 
Who reached the realm of light. 

The sons of God went forth 
Armed with the kiss of peace. 
And who were they of royal worth 
Rejoicing in release ? 

They were flowers just a bloom, 
Bestowing all they were : 
They multiplied the joy, on whom 
We helped new grace confer. 



WHOSOEVER WILL. 

SQUARE CXCII. 

I saw some climbing fast, 
While some were standing still, 
And did not doubt that all at last 
Would reach the orander hill. 

For rest is never waste 
In our divine estate ; 
And they who in their courses haste 
Bring help to them that wait 

The dawning liberty 
In God is bread and wine 
For all. Eternal prophecy, 
Life builds the stairs divine. 

All limitations are 
The prophets of advance. 
What once was cruel mortal war 
Leads in the joyful dance. 



277 



278 LOVE AND I IN, HE A VEN. 

SQUARE CXCIII. 

God's Whosoever Will 
Is never out of sight. 
What Is there which it doth not fill 
With hope and holy light ? 

The darkness cannot hide 
It. Mountains cannot crush 
It. Hell whose mouth is open wide 
Hath never power to hush 

An invitation that 
Reveals the Heart Divine. 
And He who loves and takes thee at 
The highest, bids thee shine, 

Conditioned on thy heart, 
Thou very child of God, 
To do a liberator's part 
And live on a free sod. 



IVHOSOEVER WILL. 279 

SQUARE CXCIV. 

The liberator strikes 
The swift creative blow ; 
And what the Lord Almighty likes 
Comes forth. I came to know 

The wonder. It was clear 
As that prophetic morn 
When Heaven resounded with new cheer 
Because the Christ was born. 

The vSons of God, I saw, — 
I who was in their ranks — 
Whose valor is that love is law, 
Are always giving thanks — 

Thanks for the battle field 
On which to liberate 
Their brothers. (This note was revealed 
At every shining gate.) 



2 So LOVE AND I IN HE A VEN. 

SQUARE CXCV. 
Our will is fourfold, and 
Must always have a mate : 
The square of two, we have a hand 
To make God's cause our fate. 

How could we ever live, 
Christ and Eternal Life, 
Without heroic aims ? To g-ive 
Was new possession. Strife 

Was elemental peace. 
The bondaore in the land 
From which we bravely sought release 
New bounty brought to hand. 

In liberatinof those 
With will infirm, enslaved, 
We to new heio-hts of freedom rose : 
Both they and we were saved. 



WHOSOEVER WILL. 261 

SQUARE CXCVI. 

Salvation was the grand 
Creative word that led 
Us on — a star through all the land 
Which looked down on the dead, — 

The dying and the dead ! 
Whatever way we went 
Men lost and disinherited 
Scowled to the firmament, 

With curses on their lips. 
Air, whosoever will ; 
Unmortgaged water for all ships ; 
Free light all hearts to fill ; — 

But land, God's other gift. 
The pirates of the shore 
Had seized. God had to speak and lift 
The standard which we bore. 



282 LOVE AND I IN HE A J EN 

SQUARE CXCVII. 

Thus saith the Lord, I gave 
My children mother earth 
That fruit in plenty they might have, 
And now they cry, Dearth ! dearth ! 

Stalks Famine throug^h the land, 
The land which I made free. 
Sleek Robbery goes hand in hand 
With heartless Luxury. 

And shall I suffer it 
Forever, saith the Lord ? 
The furnace of my wrath is lit, 
And my consuming word 

Is runninor through the world. 
This great iniquity 
Is doomed. Speed on with flags unfurled. 
Bring the New Liberty ! 



WHOSOEVER WILL. 283 

SQUARE CXCVIII. 

The Freedom which I love 
Is comhig, saith the Lord. 
Cease from thyself, O Earth. Above . 
Hear thou the healing word. 

Let all rejoice. Free Land, 
Free Air, Free Springs, Free Light, 
Walls of the Holy City, stand 

Foursquare : the Square sets right. 

With thankfulness I give 
In the Great Square Divine 
Abundant room for all to live 
And grow forever mine. 

And Whosoever Will 
Shall be from core to rim 
Authority and power to fill 
All measures to the brim. 



284 LOVE AND I IN HE A I EN. 

EPILOGUE. 

LXXXV. 

There is mystery after mystery cradled in the 
Human Will. The God-Child is there. Wor- 
ship Him ! 

LXXXVI. 

Whosorocr will, let linn take the water of Life 
freely. Magnificent ending to a Divine Poem 1 

LXXXVII. 

I stood upon the Mountain of Will. The 
Myriad Lilies of Love were beautiful as God. 

LXXXVIII. 

Heaven, I saw, holds in Her Motherly Hand 
the Flowers of Her Heart, saying Whosoever 
Will. 



CANTO XXIII. 

THE GOOD TIDINGS OF 
DIVINE SONSHIP. 



PROLOGUE. 



Art thott the Son of God f 
Do tJwn His Filial work, 
Shine as He shines, with Truth be shod: 
Doubt finds no place to lurk. 



DIVINE SOXSHIP. 287 

SQUARE CXCIX. 
The City lies foursquare, 
A pearl is every gate. 
We Sons of God are all aware 
To-day is Labor s date. 

Responsibility, 

Heart of what God had wrought ; 
O Mother of us all, in Thee 
The voice that cries, / ought; 

His manifested work. 
To love and choose and do. 
Where fears and failures never lurk 
And every breath is true ; — 

All that the Lord had done 
Resplendant with the birth 
And revelation of His Son, — 
Bore us through all the Earth. 



58 LOVE AND I IN HE A VEN. 

SQUARE CC. 

He first loved us ! This word 
Of words, celestial Spring 
That flows forever, was seen, heard 
And taught in everything 

Which unto God gives praise. 
We found it in all lands, 
The prophecy of golden days. 
Full of great new commands. 

In every common sight, 
In every breath of air, 
In Sun and Moon and Stars whose light 
Is music everywhere, 

And in unconscious hearts 
To hear their own desires 
Too deaf, we saw what God imparts 
To light immortal fires. 



DIVINE SONSHIP. 289 

SQUARE CCI. 

We could not be repressed, 
No power could hold us back. 
Of somethinor better than the best 
We saw the shiningf track. 

We could not otherwise 
Than follow in the wake 
Of His serene, inviting eyes, 
Who said, Come and partake. 

God's Face was everywhere ; 
Through darkest clouds it shone 
In triumph. Wonderful and fair 
From Hell 'twas not withdrawn. 

And nothing else we prized. 
With one great purpose shod 

To tell how Sonship recognized 
Makes known the Face of God. 

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290 



LOVE AND I IN JIEAVEX. 

SQUARE ecu. 

He looked us in the face, 
The Lord whom we beheld, 
And kept withdrawing at a pace 
Which every fear dispelled. 

True to His waving hand, 
We kept us on our way. 
His breath was inspiration, and 
It made the valiant day. 

What was there on the right ? 
What waited on the left ? 
Communinor with terrestrial si^ht 
We never were bereft 

Of God's sweet glory. It 
Possessed all things. The place 
Of honor was sublimely lit 
In human heart and face. 



DIVINE SONSIIIP. 

SQUARE CCIII. 

Shekinah of the Lord, 
All Sons of God and Man, 
What were. we doing? I record 
Just what in One began 

When God was so well pleased 
With His sweet Filial Mind : 
To never be of biwden eased 
With kith to wake oi^ find. 

The Son and Sons of God 
Who are forever one. 
Were with the great ambition shod, 
That what had been beeun 

In charity and faith 
Should in achievement be. 
Like all the dear Shekinah saith, 
Divine reality. 



291 



292 LOVE AND I IN HE A VEN. 

SQUARE CCIV. 

The message that we bore 
Was, All are Sons Divine ; 
Receiving which men evermore 
Arising toil and shine. 

That we were Sons of God 
Was Hfe, more hfe, to show, 
O liow could others grope and plod 
Who saw the Dayspring glow ? 

Hands in divinest aid 
Held a prophetic crown. 
Great words by wise immortals said 
Were eates to new renown. 

The gates of Sonship swung, 
And glory drew them in. 
Unuttered by the mortal tongue 
The joys which thus begin ! 



DIVINE SONSIIIP. 293 

SQUARE CCV. 

I saw that Sonship Is 
Foundation, walls, and dome, — 
In which one lives and witnesses : 
Builds every child God's home. 

Dwells He in every room. 
How can there be a place 
In which our Father is not bloom 
And everlasting grace ? 

The House of Life is fair 
As the celestial Spring, 
With no hiatus anywhere. 
No gap with naught to sing. 

In toil and travail, when 
Our revelation grows 
And brings the filial light to men, 
Is joy no mortal knows. 



294 LOVE AND I IN HE A VEN. 

SQUARE CCVI. 

Eternal House of Life ! 
The growing Sons of God, 
With ever thankful vigor rife, 
Build greater their Abode. 

As fast as they come in, 
The House not made with hands 
Enlarges. For they all begin 
To answer new demands. 

And make such royal gifts, 
And find such things above, 
That Heaven forever grows and lifts 
The canopy of love. 

More Sons of God, more room 
For gentle growth divine. 
More brothers all awake in whom 
To live and work and shine. 



DIVINE SONSIIIP. 295 

SQUARE CCVIl. 

There is no end to sight, 
To vision rich and sweet, 
When Sonship brings divine deHght, 
And seeks to be complete. 

There is no end to hfe 
In Sons of God set free, 
Who bear good tidings, Man and Wife, 
Of Heaven's ReaHty. 

There is no end to joy 
Amonor the Mornino- Stars : 
The Father, Mother, and their Boy — 
All are celestial cars. 

The Universe alone 
Can picture all I saw : 
God in His Sons, Love on the -Throne, 
Inviolable Law. 



296 LOVE AND I IN HE A VEN. 

EPILOGUE. 

LXXXIX. 
The Sons of God create Environment, generate 
Stars, Firmament, and Atmosphere, and make 
the New World. 

XC. 

At the touch of Divine Sonship confusion 
flees, infirmities disappear. New Heaven and 
Earth take form. 

XCI. 
Divine Sonship, I saw, is Vitality and Power 
wherever the Morning breaks and the Glory 
appears. 

XCII. 
To Ilcr Sons Mother Heaven appeals in the 
confidence that all Her Jewels will be found. 



CANTO XXIV. 



THE PROPHECY OF THE 

RESURRECTION AND 

THE LIFE. 



PROLOGUE. 



To find what life hath gained 
Go thou at once to Heaven ; 
And, when thou from the heights hast 
reigned, 
77iv gain is Hell Forgiven 



^c...,^ ^O t J.l.i,^ u ,,,^. 



THE RESURRECTION. 299 

SQUARE CCVIII. 

The City lies foursquare, 
A pearl is every gate. 
The Resurrection free as air 
Is prophecy as great 

As manliness can tell ; 
In which men must needs go, 
As long as aught remains of Hell, 
And publish all they know. 

One risen life brings in 
Another. Growth begun, 
Like God in whom all things begin, 
Is source and end in one. 

The Resurrection song 
Is virtue that goes on, 
New manhood found for death too strong, 
Which God then builds upon. 



300 LOVE AND I IN HE A VEN 

SQUARE CCIX. 

Death, Hell, is swallowed up 
In daily victory : 
Which is the glory of thy cup, 
O Immortality. , 

It is the Will Divine, 
The wisdom of our Love, 
That light can never spring and shine 
Except somehow to prove 

New triumph. Day burns night. 
Joy feeds on suffering. 
Heaven lives on stars that grive no lio-ht. 
Song thrives on them that sing. 

Death serves and lasts as long 
As struggle, trial, strife, 
Growth, triumph, and the swelling song 
That marks eternal life. 



THE RESURRECTION. 30I 

SQUARE CCX. 

It is the day of God. 
Death is defeated. Growth 
Is song on every thankful sod. 
Come true hath His Great Oath. 

His words in all the world 
Are conquerors. Great light 
Shines in great hearts. New flags unfurled 
Wave ManJiood always right. 

His workers everywhere 
Climb the ereat hills of rest 
In bright sublimity of prayer : 
God help me be my best. 

Hails His evanorelist 
Through all the love-lit mesh 
The Resurrection of the Christ, 
God shinine in the flesh. 



30 2 LOVE AND I IN HE A I EN. 

SQUARE CCXI. 

The Conqueror is come ; 
And He is not alone. 
When, when, O Everlasting Dome, 
Will all thy Stars be known ? 

No more thy mastery, 
O Death. Dominion gone. 
Thou art our servant. Victory 
And Life cfo on and on. 

Each thankful star, I saw, 
As rich as all the years. 
Is God's prophetic power to draw 
Affection and new tears. 

And when through daily death, 
Dark servant of our Love, 
One climbs to breathe diviner breath. 
How grow the Powers Above ! 



THE KESURKECTION. 303 

SQUARE CCXII. 

The Resurrection gives 
Prophetic knowledge. Paul, 
Who daily died of old, still lives 
And dies once more for all, 

In Manhood rising yet. 
Growth and our servant death 
Go on to make and meet new debt. 
The Christ of Nazareth 

Saves everlastingly : 
Eternal Love ehdures 
And bears our burdens graciously, 
And in the bearing- cures. 

Cures Love all pains and ills. 
And leads us to the rest 
In which there are no more two wills 
And all are at their best. 



304 LOl'E AND I IN HE A VEN. 

SQUARE CCXIII. 

Health is immortal when 
The Resurrection reigns : 
God's tabernacle is with men : 
He visibly sustains 

The child that with Him dwells ; 
And He reveals the height 
On which the great right use of hells 
Comes like a star to sight. 

With glory like the Sun, 
With warmth and life and power 
In which all victories arc won, 
The Resurrection, hour 

And triumph of the Lord 
Who comes and comes again, 
Is their creative, healing word, 
Who love and serve and rei^n. 



THK kesukkection: 305 

SQUARE CCXIV. 

Who serves in truth commands 
And lays foundations deep 
On which the House not made with hands 
Must needs forever keep 

Enlarging. Day to night 
Gives knowled<Te. Our Abode 
And Heaven which is creative Light, 
Makes known the way of God. 

The Future and the Past, 
A landscape rich and grand : 
The heritagfe that must needs last, 
God's glory in the land : 

His Wisdom from above 
Which I with joy received ; 
His Rising- and Evolving- Love — 
I saw and I believed. 



306 LOVE AND I /.V HEAVEN. 

SQUARH CCXV. 

Come, Science and true Wealth. 
Come, Education and 
Wise Evolution of the Health 
That keeps Immanuel's Eand. 

Come, Mother of us all. 
Whose Sons and Heirs are free. 
Thy oates of i)earl in jasper wall 
I enter ; and I see 

Thy fair sweet diadem 
On fnc with myriad stars, 
And, in the Light at Bethlehem 
That brought us Heaven, the cars 

And beauty of the King ; 
Who comes to live among 
His brethren and to help us sing 
God's Resurrection Song. 



THE RESURRECTION. 307 

SQUARE CCXVI. 

The Day of God is come. 
The Prophecy of Life 
Strikes twelve. Our grand enduring Home 
Shines in tlie golden strife. 

The vision of His way 
Is the great victory. 
Old argument is dead. The Day 
Is proof of all I see. 

His Heaven hath found Sw^et Use, 
Sweet Use hath found His Heaven : 
Ascend they in eternal truce ; 
Their song is He/l Foj^given. 

On Children, God's first Truth, 
His Resurrection stands : 
The River of Perennial Youth 
Forever laves all lands. 



3oS LOVE AND I /X ///■lAy/'.X. 

l-Pll.or^.liK. 
xf:iii. 

/ (rill ///<■ Rcsiirnclioii and llir Life, cries Jcsiis; 
.'iiul soiTowfiil, ;irrccli(.)iiatc, Ix.vvildi red Martha 
is coiiifortcd. 

XCIV. 

(lod rises in 1 1 is l-'aitliful ( "IiildrtMi. The 
(iu-at Sloiic and the Sohhcrs camioL iiold Ilim 
back. 

XCV. 
Ihc K(;siirrccl inn is the l)irlh of the Son of 
(jod, 1 1 is ^rowlii lo Ihe Highest forcverniorc. 



XCVI. 
I saw thai Mother Heaven in Her Chihiren 
goes forth to conceive and to bear everlastingly. 



CANTO XXV 



A PROPHETIC ACCOUNT OF 

OUR TREASURES IN 

HEAVEN. 



PROLOGUE 



Thy treasures need no care 
IVhich are in Heaven laid up : 
God keeps them free as light and air, 
And bids thee come and sup. 



TREASURES IN HEAVEN. 

SQUARE CCXVII. 

The City lies foursquare, 
A pearl is every gate. 
Here are our treasures rich and fair 
Beyond all estimate. 

And they are never still, 
Although laid up in Heaven : 
They follow on the Father's will — 
Forgive — till seven times seven, 

Forever and a day — 
Till through sweet love and trust 
That old reproach they take away 
Of thieves and moth and rust, 

And feed the growing store 
In God so glorious ; 
Who always keeps an open door 
For love victorious. 



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312 LOVE AND I IN JIEA VEN. 

SQUARE CCXVllI. 

They have not far to go, 
Though always on the way, 
Our treasures which such glory know, 
Which we our debtors pay. 

Heaven always is at hand, 
Dear City of the Lord. 
O not in any foreign land 

Are our sweet treasures stored. 

For one who loves contains 
Them. I)Owcd humanity 
Adores them. They are full remains 
Of Present Deity, 

To bring Him into sight, 
The Father hid so Ion or, 
And publish that fraternal height 
WHiere men arc true and strong. 



TREASURES IN HE A VEN. 

SQUARE CCXIX. 

They never stand apart, 
The treasures and the man : 
Incorporate hke mind and heart, 
And all our loves, they span 

The Ages. Love and I 
Beheld them stretch forth hands 
Of sympathy, and prophesy 
New freedom and new lands. 



I met them in the ranks 
Where life sings God is good ; 
And they refreshed me, giving thanks 
That they were understood. 

A part of all I saw, 
I loved God's jewels : which 
Possess eternal power to draw, 
And make beholders rich. 



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314 ^-^^ f'^'' -^^'^^ J /^V HE A VEN. 

SQUARE CCXX. 

I'oroivcMiess is the: woril 
That christens every treasure 
Which hath the h('art celestial stirred 
And hlled some precious measure. 

I'or sweet torL;iv(;ness is 
The soul and end of love, 
i'he soni.;- of brotherhood, that bliss 
1 lid in all thino's above. 

And so the Sons of God, 
I saw, who speed away 
To 1 lell, to bring the g-rand Abode 
A yet diviner day, 

With joy take with them all 
The treasures they have stored : 
in which divine memorial 
Our bather is adored. 



TREASURES IN HE A VEN. 

SQUARE CCXXI. 
It was an endless train 
Passed up and down the skies. 
O Christ ! to oro and come aeain 
Is the New Paradise. 

Gave each all that he had 
To purchase one new life. 
All were indeed divinely glad, 
In the benignant strife, 

To yield the very soul, 
The Lord's Forgiving Blood, 
To add another to the roll 

Of Heaven's dear Brotherhood, 



(That I was in the ranks, 
With God's sweet treasures, was 
Humility and daily thanks) 
Behold what came to pass. 



315 



3 1 6 I-O I'/i AND / IN JlEA 1 7s N. 

SQUAKli CCXXII. 

The goodness of iIk- Lord 
Was labor which is r(;st, 
1 lis everlasting watch and ward, 
All things that arc; th(; best. 

Heaven mirrored in a look, 
The sympathizing hand, 
Were grand rc^sponses to the Book, 
Gates to the Promised Land. 

The kindness that revives, 
The lu;!)) that gives new power, 
Was grace to consecrate all lives. 
Was God revealed: Christ's hour. 

Forgiveness, like the sun 
Who always shines and sings, 
Kept crying, (j(>(/ ^cliosc 7vill is done 
IlatJi Jicaliiig in His luiiigs. 



TREASURES I.\ J/E.llEX. 3 I 7 

SQUARE CCXXlll. 

No history can tell 
What all the treasures are, 
In which is Lord Inimanuel 
The brii^ht, forofivinof Star. 

With these and with the like 
We entered the 2food fio^ht : 
Destroyed we there dike after dike 
Which stayed the waves of light. 

Thanksgiving- came. The Word 
Looked forth from sky and fen. 
The Tabernacle of the Lord 
Divinely shone in men. 

A radiant herald ran 
Alike in sun and storm 
Through the vast firmament of man 
And cried, God and His Form ! 



3 I 8 LOVE AND I IN HE A VEN. 

SQUARE CCXXIV. 

God and His Form ! he cried, 
That herald from on high. 
God's Form is Sonship, and the Bride 
Thai never passes by 

The denizens of. Hell. 
I saw that Sonship is 
The Great Redemption. Samuel 
Is God's incarnate bliss, 

The Child that hears His voice. 
And His Beloved Son, 
In whom the myriad worlds rejoice, 
Stands for all triumphs won. 

God's Form is Filial Grace, 
Eternal Life in siijht. 
And always shining in His Face 
Who brings our Sire to light. 



TREASURES IN HE A VEN. 3 I 9 

SQUARE CCXXV. 

The New Theocracy 
Is founded. Love and I 
Work, work. God is reality. 
On earth contains On high. 

Our Father's House of Love 
Is shining everywhere. 
All are transfigured. God above 
Is God at hand. His care 

Continues down to Hell. 
The struggle and the strife 
Are doors to birth and Heaven. The W'ell 
That yields Eternal Life 

Flows more and more. Light, light 
Is joy and might. Enlarged 
Are all God's soldiers. .Speeds the fight: 
And no one is discharged. 





320 LOVE AND I IN HE A VEN. 

EPILOGUE. 

XCVIl. 
Where yoiir treasure is there will your heart be 
also. Treasures and Hearts are always insep- 
arable. 

XCVIIl. 
Treasures are the Insignia of Sonship, and to 
the Morning Stars the Blessed Fuel of Song. 

XCIX. 
In Heaven Treasures increase continually, 
because they are daily imparted to the Needy. 
Use is growth. 

C. 

O Mother Heaven, sweet Mother Heaven ! 
keep my Treasures, and grant me to communi- 
cate them forever ! 



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